Tag: PlasticStar
Producing Large, Clean 2D Materials Made Easy: Just KISS
Ever since the discovery of the two-dimensional form of graphite (called graphene) almost twenty years ago, interest in 2D materials with their special physical...
Nanocrystal Materials Shines On and Off Indefinitely
Scientists at Columbia Engineering, Berkeley Lab, and UNIST demonstrate that ultra-photostable avalanching nanoparticles are capable of unlimited photoswitching, lighting the way for advances in...
New Associative Polymers Reveal their Workings
New Associative Polymers Reveal their Workings: A University of Virginia-led study about a class of materials called associative polymers appears to challenge a long-held...
Collecting New Synthesized Quantum Materials
Virtual laboratory opens possibility for machine learning to understand promising class of quantum materials
Collecting New Synthesized Quantum Materials: Thomas Edison famously tried hundreds of...
MIT Engineers Develop a Soft, Printable, Metal-Free Electrode
A new Jell-O-like material could replace metals as electrical interfaces for pacemakers, cochlear implants, and other electronic implants.
MIT Engineers Develop a Soft, Printable, Metal-Free...
Advancing Material Innovation to Address the Polymer Waste Crisis
MIT researchers work to discover biodegradable polyesters, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, J-WAFS, and DIC Corp.
Advancing Material Innovation to Address...
New Material Transforms Light, Creating New Possibilities for Solar
New Material Transforms Light, Creating New Possibilities for Solar: AUSTIN, Texas — A group of scientists and engineers that includes researchers from The University...
Rubber Materials Taking a Beating Without Losing Their Bounce
Rubber Materials Taking a Beating Without Losing Their Bounce: DURHAM, N.C. -- When it comes to the environmental impacts of cars, much ink has...
Metamaterials with Built-In Frustration have Mechanical Memory
Researchers from the UvA-Institute of Physics and ENS de Lyon have discovered how to design materials that necessarily have a point or line where...
Using Pineapple Stems to make New Bio Plastic Sheet Material
A team of researchers from universities in Thailand and Malaysia have collaborated to develop a unique kind of bioplastic sheet that is good for...
