Material Science & Technology

A flexible molecular motor was first developed in 1999, in the laboratory of Ben Feringa, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Groningen. These motors are powered by electricity....

Engineers from MIT and the University of Tokyo have created a (Is boron nitride the new carbon?) centimeter-scale structure, large enough for the eye to see, that consists of hundreds...

Members of Prof. ZHANG Tao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. HOU Yang from Zhejiang...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have found a way to create a new material like plastic, but conducts like metal. The study, published in October. 26 in Nature, shows...

Inspired from living things, from plants to shellfish, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin began to create plastics ("Smart Plastic" is a step forward in robotics and soft...

Researchers at Kanazawa University report at ACS Nano the development of a nanoparticle that works as a heater and thermometer. The introduction of nanoparticles into living cells (Heat up the...

Innovations are being introduced to provide us with a new material with faster and higher resolution displays. Researchers at Hokkaido University were able to explain what makes this material unique,...

Although nanotechnology and materials science are complicated topics for many of us, research in these areas is very important to almost everyone. Your digital tools, for example (A flat 3D...

The whitest color in the world - seen in this year's edition of the Guinness World Records and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" - makes the surface cool enough...

Aerogels are lightweight materials with large microscopic pores, which can be used in thermal insulation, energy devices, aerospace structures, and flexible electronic technologies. However, traditional ceramic-based aerogels are soft, which...