An illustration shows the basic nanowire building block – a diamondoid cage carrying atoms of copper and sulfur – drifting toward the growing tip of a nanowire, center, where it will attach in a way determined by its size...
A silk fibroin pin changes color from blue to red when the force applied reaches the material’s yield point. Source: Silk Lab
Tufts University engineers have created a new format of solids made from silk protein that can be preprogrammed...
Illustration showing self-healing via ion-dipole interaction.Credit: University of Colorado, Boulder
Researchers create a self-healing, transparent, highly stretchable material that can be electrically activated and used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots
Scientists, including several from the University of California, Riverside,...
Scanning transmission electron microscope image of a nickel-platinum composite material created at The Ohio State University. At left, the image is overlaid with false-color maps of elements in the material, including platinum (red), nickel (green) and oxygen (blue).
Credit: Imaging...
This image shows the fabrication steps from raw circular filament to a fully functional bending artificial muscle. The bottom filament is a raw circular filament. Researchers press the filament using a rolling mill (the second sample from the bottom)....
Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have created a bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper that can power disposable electronics.Credit: Seokheun
Instead of ordering batteries by the pack, we might get them by the ream...
Experimenting on mice with a genetic change similar to that found in people with a rare inherited disease called Kabuki syndrome, Johns Hopkins scientists report that a very low-carbohydrate diet can "open up" DNA and improve mental function.
Along with...
LLNL scientists synthesized a long sought-after five-ring nitrogen compound under pressure starting from a mixture of cesium azide (CsN3) and molecular nitrogen. Credit: Adam Connell/TID
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists in collaboration with University of South Florida theorists recently...
Assortment of diamond offcuts used in this study. The largest is 9.6 carats. These diamonds could be analyzed by destructive means (polishing to expose inclusions) whereas many other diamonds studied were polished gemstones that were only borrowed and studied...
Low-frequency mechanical energy harvesting could provide as much as 40 percent of the power requirements for next generation smartphones and tablets.Credit: Wang Lab/Penn State
A new concept in energy harvesting could capture energy that is currently mostly wasted due to...
Image Credit: Flickr/Nico Jensen
New perovskite material developed by EU researchers is set to define the next generation of hard drives.
The amount of data generated on a daily basis is quickly surpassing the storage capabilities of today's hard drives. In...
