Tag: Plastic Star
New Animal Inspired Lightweight Designs
By Rachel Crowell
The animals could inspire the creation of strong, but lightweight new materials
Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common...
Manufacturing Metal-Organic Framework-Based Composites for Efficiency
By Michelle Revels
Manufacturing Metal-Organic Framework-Based Composites for Efficiency: Dr. Qingsheng Wang, associate professor and George Armistead ‘23 Faculty Fellow in the Artie McFerrin Department...
Material that can Learn Like the Brain
by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Material that can Learn Like the Brain: EPFL researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound used in electronics,...
Water Separates into Two Different Liquids
Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, has been uncovered by researchers.
The research was carried out...
Rechargeable Grid Storage Batteries
Rechargeable Grid Storage Batteries: Over the past few years, scientists have been hard at work trying to develop rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide batteries into a...
Compost to computer Using Bio-Based Materials
Compost to computer Using Bio-Based Materials: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — What do corncobs and tomato peels have to do with electronics? They both can...
International Space Station Tests Materials in Space
by Melissa Gaskill, NASA
International Space Station Tests Materials in Space: Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids,...
New Inks For 3D-Printable Wearable Bioelectronics
A Texas A&M teamhas developed a new class of biomaterial inks that mimic native characteristics of highly conductive human tissue.
By Alleynah Veatch Cofas, Texas...
Study on Materials Assembly in Confinement
by Syl Kacapyr, Cornell University
Cramming multiple pairs of shoes into a vacation suitcase, twisting and flipping them into different arrangements to fit every pair needed,...
Turning Sunlight into Electrical Energy in 2D Materials
by University of Göttingen
Turning Sunlight into Electrical Energy in 2D Materials: An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has, for the first...
