Material Science & Technology

Amazing discovery: Healing Metals themselves. A microscopic chip breaks out in an experiment, revealing the possibility of a self-healing machine. Scientists have seen for the first time pieces of metal...

This combination of nanomaterials is a hybrid of conducting polymer and graphene, which can efficiently convert light into electricity and vice versa. A group of researchers from the Carbochemistry Institute (ICB)...

For decades, scientists have explored the potential of two-dimensional matter to change our world. A 2D object is just a single layer of atoms. In them, subatomic particles such as...

Perovskite halide materials exhibit atomic vibrations similar to liquids, Halide perovskites are a recently developed type of material. They have applications in solar energy and radiation detection. They can also...

Researchers at the universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen are developing self-modifying polymers that can adapt to changes in environmental conditions. Wearable medical devices with Smart Rubber Materials, such as flexible...

Color outside the lines Mathias Kolle's color changing material is derived from butterflies and molluscs. For Mathias Kolle, the wings of a butterfly are a window to a better material world....

When Ange Nzihou, an expert in converting public waste into useful products, visited Princeton in 2022, he brought with him a method to convert waste biomass into graphene (Green Graphene...

A New Method to create microscale superstructures, HKU chemists develop shape-shifting agents for targeted load delivery in small quantities. In nature, structures that combine both soft and hard materials are often...

The future is bright in eco-friendly lighting materials, just add dendrimers, cellulose and graphene. Researchers from Japan and Germany have developed a new environmental friendly and sustainable electrochemical cell using dendrimers...

Researchers at the University Of Oregon Science University have demonstrated the ability of inexpensive (low-cost) nanomaterials to remove carbon dioxide from industrial air. The findings, published in Cell Reports Physical Science,...