Research Team Develops Process for Bio-Based Nylon

Electrons and microbes are the decisive factor in this Research Team Develops Process for Bio-Based Nylon: Until now, nylon has been produced from petroleum-based raw materials....

Producing Large, Clean 2D Materials Made Easy: Just KISS

Ever since the discovery of the two-dimensional form of graphite (called graphene) almost twenty years ago, interest in 2D materials with their special physical...

Liquid Metal Sticks to Surfaces without a Binding Agent

Liquid Metal Sticks to Surfaces without a Binding Agent: Everyday materials such as paper and plastic could be transformed into electronic “smart devices” by...

Nanocrystal Materials Shines On and Off Indefinitely

Scientists at Columbia Engineering, Berkeley Lab, and UNIST demonstrate that ultra-photostable avalanching nanoparticles are capable of unlimited photoswitching, lighting the way for advances in...

New Associative Polymers Reveal their Workings

New Associative Polymers Reveal their Workings: A University of Virginia-led study about a class of materials called associative polymers appears to challenge a long-held...

Collecting New Synthesized Quantum Materials

Virtual laboratory opens possibility for machine learning to understand promising class of quantum materials Collecting New Synthesized Quantum Materials: Thomas Edison famously tried hundreds of...

MIT Engineers Develop a Soft, Printable, Metal-Free Electrode

A new Jell-O-like material could replace metals as electrical interfaces for pacemakers, cochlear implants, and other electronic implants. MIT Engineers Develop a Soft, Printable, Metal-Free...

Advancing Material Innovation to Address the Polymer Waste Crisis

MIT researchers work to discover biodegradable polyesters, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, J-WAFS, and DIC Corp. Advancing Material Innovation to Address...

New Material Transforms Light, Creating New Possibilities for Solar

New Material Transforms Light, Creating New Possibilities for Solar: AUSTIN, Texas — A group of scientists and engineers that includes researchers from The University...

Rubber Materials Taking a Beating Without Losing Their Bounce

Rubber Materials Taking a Beating Without Losing Their Bounce: DURHAM, N.C. -- When it comes to the environmental impacts of cars, much ink has...