Materials

A wolverine inspired material

28 Dec 2016

Engineers create programmable silk-based materials with embedded, pre-designed functions

27 Dec 2016

Graphene able to transport huge currents on the nano scale

23 Dec 2016

Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron interactions

21 Dec 2016

Microfactories turn unwanted electronics into valuable metal alloys; solve global e-waste crisis

07 Dec 2016

The breakthrough new process recovers the considerable wealth of resources embedded in e-waste while overcoming the challenges of toxicity and the often prohibitively high costs of conventional industrial-scale recycling

Making spines from sea water

06 Dec 2016

TIFR researchers discover superconductivity of pure Bismuth crystal

05 Dec 2016

Perovskite solar cells hit new world efficiency record

03 Dec 2016

Nylon fibres made to flex like muscles

29 Nov 2016

MIT engineers find a simple and inexpensive new approach to creating bending artificial muscle fibres

Uncovering the secrets of friction on graphene

24 Nov 2016

Semiconductor-free microelectronics are now possible, thanks to metamaterials

08 Nov 2016

Using metamaterials, engineers have been able to build a micro-scale device that shows a 1,000-per cent increase in conductivity when activated by low voltage and a low power laser

Researchers use graphene templates to make new metal-oxide nanostructures

08 Nov 2016

3-D-printed permanent magnets outperform conventional versions, conserve rare materials

02 Nov 2016

Towards better metallic glasses

25 Oct 2016

'Bolt of lightning' captures development of block copolymer

22 Oct 2016

Stretchy optical fibres for implanting in the body

22 Oct 2016

Non-toxic solvent removes barrier to commercialisation of ‘wonder material’ perovskite solar cells

20 Oct 2016

Diamond micro-anvils to be used to produce immense pressures to make new materials

20 Oct 2016

Crystal clear imaging: Infrared brings to light nanoscale molecular arrangement

15 Oct 2016

Long may you wave, borophene

06 Oct 2016

Scientists purify copper nanowires with a near-100% yield

06 Oct 2016

'Materials that compute' advances as Pitt engineers demonstrate pattern recognition

05 Oct 2016

Uniform 'hairy' nanorods have potential energy, biomedical applications

03 Oct 2016

New theory overcomes a longstanding polymer problem

By By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 19 Sep 2016

For the past 100 years, polymer scientists have been stymied in their efforts to predict polymers’ elasticity, because the materials usually have structural flaws at the molecular level, which MIT researchers have now found a way of circumventing