4D-printed materials can be stiff as wood or soft as sponge
Engineers' unique smart materials change shape as temperatures change.
Mar 22nd, 2019
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Nanomembrane could help regrow tissue lost to periodontal disease
Researchers report development of a membrane that helps periodontal tissue regenerate when implanted into the gums of rats.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreMaking solar cells is like buttering bread
Formamidinium lead iodide is a very good material for photovoltaic cells, but getting the correct and stable crystal structure is a challenge. The techniques developed so far have produced rather poor results. Researchers have now cracked it - using a blade and a dipping solution.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreIn a new quantum simulator, light behaves like a magnet
Physicists propose a new 'quantum simulator': a laser-based device that can be used to study a wide range of quantum systems. Studying it, the researchers have found that photons can behave like magnetic dipoles at temperatures close to absolute zero, following the laws of quantum mechanics. The simple simulator can be used to better understand the properties of complex materials under such extreme conditions.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreEngineers demonstrate metamaterials that can solve equations
This 'photonic calculus' would work by encoding parameters into the properties of an incoming electromagnetic wave and sending it through a metamaterial device; once inside, the device's unique structure would manipulate the wave in such a way that it would exit encoded with the solution to a pre-set integral equation for that arbitrary input.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreMagnetic micro-boats
Researchers have created magnetic microparticles, with a newly developed method, that could pave the way for building micro-motors or guiding drugs in the human body to a target, like a tumor. The preparation of such structures as well as their remote-control can be regulated using magnetic fields and therefore can find application in an array of domains.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreMaterials could delay frost up to 300 times longer than existing anti-icing coatings
Scientists describe for the first time several unique properties of materials known as phase-switching liquids, or PSLs, that hold promise as next-generation anti-icing materials. PSLs can delay ice and frost formation up to 300 times longer than state-of-the-art coatings being developed in laboratories.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreGolden ball in a golden cage
'Golden fullerene': ligand-protected nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreResearchers boost intensity of nanowire LEDs
Nanowire specialists have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of shell, produce five times higher light intensity than do comparable LEDs based on a simpler shell design.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreTrue-meaning wearable displays: Self-powered, washable and wearable
Researchers have developed a textile-based wearable display module technology that is washable and does not require an external power source.
Mar 21st, 2019
Read moreVisualizing better cancer treatment with nanoscale protein micelles
Researchers have engineered nanoscale protein micelles capable of both delivering chemotherapeutic drugs and of being tracked by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Mar 20th, 2019
Read moreStudying the fundamentals of 3D active matter
Active matter is a relatively new field of soft matter research in physics and still in need of some basic principles.
Mar 20th, 2019
Read moreTerminator-like liquid metal moves and stretches in 3D space (w/video)
Scientists report the development of new liquid metals that can be manipulated in 3D space with magnets.
Mar 20th, 2019
Read moreScientists discover chiral crystals exhibiting exotic quantum effects
Crystals possessing 'handedness' exhibit unusual properties. New evidence suggests that they can host electrons moving like slowed down light and their collective behavior mimics magnetic monopoles.
Mar 20th, 2019
Read moreComputer scientists create programmable self-assembling DNA
Computer scientists have created DNA molecules that can self-assemble into patterns essentially by running their own program.
Mar 20th, 2019
Read moreLithium ions flow through solid material
Scientists have merged materials science and condensed matter physics in a study of a promising solid material that conducts lithium ions.
Mar 20th, 2019
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