Tag: Plastic Star
Engineered Wood Grows Stronger while Trapping Carbon Dioxide
Rice U. scientists’ method could lower both emissions and building construction costs
Engineered Wood Grows Stronger while Trapping Carbon Dioxide: Rice University scientists have figured out...
MIT Polymer Modular System to Produce Efficient and Scalable Aquabots
The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.
MIT Polymer Modular System to Produce Efficient and Scalable Aquabots:...
Researchers Develop Elastic Material that is Impervious to Gases and Liquids
Researchers Develop Elastic Material that is Impervious to Gases and Liquids: An international team of researchers has developed a technique that uses liquid metal...
Make Materials Thin Enough, and they Become Ferroelectric
Make Materials Thin Enough, and they Become Ferroelectric: Antiferroelectric materials have electrical properties that make them advantageous for use in high-density energy storage applications....
Superconductivity Switches On and Off in “Magic-Angle” Graphene
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
Superconductivity Switches On and Off in “Magic-Angle”...
Microscopy Images Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum...
Microscopy Images Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing: Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow’s quantum...
New Gel Material Filters Cleans Water for Daily Needs
Worldwide, over two billion people lack reliable access to clean water. And one potential solution for meeting that need works a lot like a...
Temperature-Sensing Building Material Changes to Save Energy
Temperature-Sensing Building Material changes to Save Energy: Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have designed a chameleon-like building...
Mysteries of Mineral Material Mica
A well-known mineral is once again the center of attention thanks to applications in electronics: the Vienna University of Technology shows that mica still...
Powering Wearable Technology with Textile Supercapactior
Powering Wearable Technology with Textile Supercapactior: Researchers at Drexel University are one step closer to making wearable textile technology a reality. Recently published in
the...
