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Synthetic materials mimic living creatures
Added: 24 Jun 2020
Northwestern University researchers have developed a family of soft materials that imitates living …
The many lifetimes of plastics
Added: 16 Jun 2020
Infographics strive to give us a sense of how long plastic goods will last in the environment but i…
Machine learning predicts nanoparticle structure and dynamics
Added: 12 Jun 2020
Researchers at the Nanoscience Center and at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Universit…
Reactive 3D printing for autonomous shapeshifting materials
Added: 12 Jun 2020
Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality w…
Materials Informatics: The Time For Adoption is Now
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Materials Informatics is the key to enabling a paradigm shift in our approach to materials science …
Viable sodium-ion battery for sustainable energy storage
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have…
Oil-hungry smart sponge could restore our oceans
Added: 2 Jun 2020
A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soak…
New technique for higher resolution molecular imaging and analysis
Added: 1 Jun 2020
A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method to conduct spectroscopic nanosco…
Tracking the physics of biological cells using nanodevices (video)
Added: 28 May 2020
For the first time, scientists have introduced minuscule tracking devices directly into the interio…
Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria
Added: 27 May 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid ma…
Higgs Spectroscopy: A new method to measure superconductors
Added: 13 May 2020
From sustainable energy to quantum computers: high-temperature superconductors have the potential t…
Generating sustained nanolight
Added: 12 May 2020
An international research team has discovered an effective method for controlling the frequency of …
‘Open Design’: Printing research hardware to save on capitol costs
Added: 7 May 2020
Free and open source hardware (FOSH) is rapidly gaining momentum as part of a global ‘open design m…
Extending the design rules for clean energy production
Added: 7 May 2020
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have uncovered the …
Scalable ‘Twistronics’ for exotic 2D applications
Added: 4 May 2020
Researchers from Aalto University have developed a completely new method for twisting atomically th…
Controlled spherical crystallography for targeted drug delivery
Added: 4 May 2020
Results from a research collaboration between researchers at Drexel’s College of Engineering and th…
Going round in circles
Added: 9 Apr 2020
Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution …
Graphene device bridges the terahertz gap
Added: 5 Feb 2020
Researchers have used graphene to create a device which will unlock the elusive terahertz wavelengt…
Getting into the lab, via the stomach
Added: 26 Jan 2020
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they…
An ode to imagination
Added: 15 Jan 2020
Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination t…
