Tag: Research
Living Plastic Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry’s environmental footprint. Researchers led by the University of California San Diego have developed...
Novel Recycling Process Gives Old Plastics New Life
Using greener catalysts, Northwestern researchers break down and rebuild polyurethane to make new foam
Novel Recycling Process Gives Old Plastics New Life: Polyurethane plastics are...
New Carbon-Fiber Tape from Thermoplastic Composites
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology has perfected high-quality unwinding of reinforcements used in pressure tanks, retaining more than 90% mechanical strength in the...
Creating Highly Conductive Metallic Gel for 3D Printing
Creating Highly Conductive Metallic Gel for 3D Printing: Researchers have developed a metallic gel that is highly electrically conductive and can be used to...
Atoms to Materials: Unlock path to Sustainable Technologies
Atoms to Materials: Unlock path to Sustainable Technologies: New research by the University of Liverpool could signal a step change in the quest to...
Liquid Metal Sticks to Surfaces without a Binding Agent
Liquid Metal Sticks to Surfaces without a Binding Agent: Everyday materials such as paper and plastic could be transformed into electronic “smart devices” by...
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...
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...
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...
This Salty Gel could Harvest Water from Desert Air
A new material developed by MIT engineers exhibits “record-breaking” vapor absorption.
This Salty Gel could Harvest Water from Desert Air: MIT engineers have synthesized a...
