Tag: Composite Materials
Intelligent Healing for Complex Wounds
A bioelectronic interface could speed the body’s natural healing processes to deliver faster recovery from wounds with fewer complications
Blast injuries, burns, and other wounds...
Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic “building blocks” from which stable...
A material that works as both conductor, insulator
Quantum materials are a type of odd substance that could be many times more efficient at conducting electricity through our iPhones than the commonly...
Print out solar panels and stick them on your roof
Australia's first commercial installation of printed solar cells, made using specialized semiconducting inks and printed using a conventional reel-to-reel printer, has been installed on...
Researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, which they highlight today in the journal Advanced Materials.
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Dubai mandates that all new buildings be 25% 3D printed by...
According to the World Economic Forum, Dubai wants 25% of every new building to be 3D printed within the next seven years. The Dubai...
Biodegradable plastic blends offer new options for disposal
Imagine throwing your empty plastic water bottle into a household composting bin that breaks down the plastic and produces biogas to help power your...
Rh ensemble catalyst for effective automobile exhaust treatment
A KAIST research team has developed a fully dispersed Rh ensemble catalyst (ENS) that shows better performance than commercial diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC). This...
Architect illuminates the future of built environments
Blaine Brownell is more than an architect and a professor at the University of Minnesota: he’s a researcher of emerging materials. For those not...
Tethers Unlimited wins NASA grant to work on future FabLab for...
Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited is getting a shot at helping to create an advanced fabrication facility that could manufacture and recycle 3-D printed items...