Tag: Advanced Materials
Paper-folding art inspires better bandages
Paper-folding art inspires better bandages
Cutting kirigami-style slits in stretchy films could make for bandages, heat pads, and wearable electronics that adhere to flexible surfaces.
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3D Printing to Take the Weight Off for Formula One Customer
Formula One racing owes a lot to 3D printing, whether it’s prototyping or final parts. 3D printing can reduce the cost of prototyping and fabrication, allows for...
What plants can teach us about oil spill clean-up and microfluidics
For years, scientists have been inspired by nature to innovate solutions to tricky problems, even oil spills—manmade disasters with devastating environmental and economic consequences....
Castle on a pencil tip via nano-scale 3D-printing
Multiphoton lithography (MPL) or multiphoton processing is an umbrella term for 3D printing methods relying on photochemical reactions triggered by multiphoton absorption (MPA). The...
3D Printed Hyperelastic Bone Now Commercially Available for Research
About a year and a half ago, scientists at Northwestern University made a major breakthrough. They developed a form of 3D printed hyperelastic bone that not only encourages...
A future colorfully lit by mystifying physics of paint-on semiconductors
Some novel materials that sound too good to be true turn out to be true and good. An emergent class of semiconductors, which could...
Neutrons help demystify multiferroic materials
Materials used in electronic devices are typically chosen because they possess either special magnetic or special electrical properties. However, an international team of researchers...
Polymers Reduce Drag More than Expected
Adding polymer to a liquid was thought to reduce drag only up to a point, but new experiments have found exceptions to the usual...
Physicists discover new quantum electronic material
With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior.
A motif of Japanese basketweaving known as the kagome pattern...
Rubbery carbon aerogels greatly expand applications
Researchers have designed carbon aerogels that can be reversibly stretched to more than three times their original length, displaying elasticity similar to that of...
