A Next Generation Material that Adapts to its History

A Next Generation Material that Adapts to its History: Inspired by living systems, researchers at Aalto University have developed a new material that changes...

NYC Tries Plastic Roads

NYC Tries Plastic Roads If you can make a plastic road in New York City, can you make it anywhere? The Big Apple is in the...

Transparent Plastic that’s Highly Conductive

Transparent Plastic that's Highly Conductive: It was a simple idea—maybe even too simple to work. Research scientist James Ponder and a team of Georgia...

Michigan Team Recycles Previously Unrecyclable Plastic

Michigan Team Recycles Previously Unrecyclable Plastic: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third...

Nanomaterials Treat Obesity Anywhere You Want

Columbia researchers discover that the cationic charged P-G3 reduces fat at targeted locations by inhibiting the unhealthy lipid storage of enlarged fat cells Nanomaterials Treat...

Harvard Uses Advanced Materials to Create Advanced Integrated Chip

Device could advance quantum computing and quantum networks Harvard Uses Advanced Materials to Create Advanced Integrated Chip: Optical photons are ideal carriers of quantum information....

Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride

by University of Michigan Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the...

New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces

by National Institute of Standards and Technology New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces: NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy...

The Future of Welding and Lightweight Vehicles

The Future of Welding and Lightweight Vehicles: Making vehicle structures out of a combination of metals and plastics could make them dramatically lighter, stronger,...

3D Printing Method to Fabricate Metal–Plastic Composites

Novel 3D Printing Method to Fabricate Complex Metal–Plastic Composite Structures: Three-dimensional (3D) metal–plastic composite structures have widespread potential applicability in smart electronics, micro/nanosensing, internet-of-things...