Tag: Advanced Materials
New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics.
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its...
Controlling how “odd couple” Surfaces and Liquids Interact
Spread out or bead up? A new process enables control over liquid-solid interfaces even with the most unlikely pairs of materials.
David Chandler | MIT News Office
The...
New Ultrathin Film can Autonomously Switch from Dark to Light
Researchers from KAIST created an optical film technology that allows smart windows to autonomously switch between being transparent and opaque in response to light...
New Lightweight Material is Stronger than Steel
The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions.
Using a novel polymerization process, MIT...
Multifunctionality of Nanoengineered Self-Sensing Lattices Enabled by Additive Manufacturing
Authors:
Jabir Ubaid,Johannes Schneider,Vikram S. Deshpande,Brian L. Wardle,Shanmugam Kumar
Introduction
Cellular forms are omnipresent in nature and are found in wood, cork, beehives, sponge, and bone where the performance or function...
Drexel’s MXene Filter Materials for Wearable Artificial Kidney Technology
Drexel University’s MXene material is one step closer to transforming the lives of people suffering from end-stage kidney disease. Nephria Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based...
Templating Approach Stabilises ‘ideal’ Material for Alternative Solar Cells
Researchers have developed a method to stabilise a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect performance.
The researchers, from...
Scientists Develop Fully Woven, Smart Display
Researchers have developed a 46-inch (116cm) woven display with smart sensors, energy harvesting and storage integrated directly into the fabric.
By integrating fibre-based electronics, photonic,...
3D Printing Smart Clothes with a New Liquid Metal-Alginate Ink
“Liquid Metal Microgels for Three-Dimensional Printing of Smart Electronic Clothes”
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
In the future, smart clothing might monitor our posture, communicate with...
Seeing More Deeply into Nanomaterials
New 3D imaging tool reveals engineered and self-assembled nanoparticle lattices with highest resolution yet—7nm—about 1/100,000 of the width of a human hair
UPTON, NY—From designing...
