How to Use Clean Plastic Packaging

How to Use Clean Plastic Packaging: Clean packaging is moving to the top of the agenda for many brands and packaging converters because our...

Physicist Find New Morphing Property of Honeycomb-Like Material

Physicist Find New Morphing Property of Honeycomb-Like Material: A series of buzzing, bee-like “loop-currents” could explain a recently discovered, never-before-seen phenomenon in a type...

3D Printing Plant’s for Studying Cell Function

by Mick Kulikowski, North Carolina State University 3D Printing Plant for Studying Cell Function: A new study from North Carolina State University shows a reproducible way...

Study Opens Door to New Class of Slippery, Water-Loving Surfaces

Arun Kumar Kota: akota2@ncsu.edu Matt Shipman: matt_shipman@ncsu.edu Study Opens Door to New Class of Slippery, Water-Loving Surfaces: Researchers have demonstrated that engineered surfaces can be hydrophilic...

Topological Materials Become Switchable

Because they are extremely stable, so-called "topological states" play an important role in materials research. Now, for the first time, it has been possible...

Smart Plastic: Material is Soft, Flexible Robotics, and Electronics

Smart Plastic: Material is Soft, Flexible Robotics, and Electronics: AUSTIN, Texas — Inspired by living things from trees to shellfish, researchers at The University...

Laser can Spin Electrons Right Round in 2D Material

Laser can Spin Electrons Right Round in 2D Material: In thin, two-dimensional semiconductors, electrons move, spin and synchronize in unusual ways. For researchers, understanding...

Thermoformable Ceramics, ‘A New Frontier in Materials’

By Ian Thomson Thermoformable Ceramics, 'A New Frontier in Materials': It was one of those happy accidents of science. Northeastern professor Randall Erb and Ph.D. student...

Physicists Take Self-Assembly to New Level by Mimicking Biology

Breakthrough Opens Up New Possibilities for Creation of Next Generation of Materials Physicists Take Self-Assembly to New Level by Mimicking Biology: A team of physicists...

Scientists use Machine Learning to Accelerate Materials Discovery

Scientists use Machine Learning to Accelerate Materials Discovery: A new computational approach will improve understanding of different states of carbon and guide the search...