A single-layer of tungsten disulfide, a two-dimensional material, was put on a silicon dioxide, a hydrophilic substrate and it showed tungsten disulfide interacting with water…
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An illustration shows how the normal state of a superconducting cuprate abruptly changes when the density of free-flowing electrons is tweaked in a process known…
Johannes Gladisch working with the experiment. Credit: Thor Balkhed Reversible electronic solid-gel switching of a conjugated polymer. Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have…
This illustration shows how the two layers of plastic and silica work together to protect the perovskite material. Credit: Georgia Tech Armored with plastic ‘hair’…
A breakthrough study unravels the presence of unique magnetic transitions in peculiar structures similar to Quasicrystals. Credit: Tokyo University of Science Scientists showed for the…
Various glass objects created with a 3D printer. Credit: Group for Complex Materials / ETH Zurich ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce…
Researchers of the Faculty of Science of the University of Malaga (UMA) have designed a low-cost T-shirt that generates electricity from the temperature difference between…
Christopher J. Hernandez, associate professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, explains how seemingly…
Illustration of controlled rotation of boron nitride (BN) layers above and below a graphene layer introduce coexisting moiré superlattices, which change size, symmetry, and complexity…
Synthetic biologists working on a US Army project have developed a set of design rules that guide how ribosomes, a cell structure that makes protein,…
Industrial and automotive machinery, such as automotive engine parts, contain materials that are, heat-, wear-, and corrosion-resistant. They are known as “super engineering plastics,” and…
This is professor Ernst Bauer in his lab. Credit: TU Wien A new type of material generates electrical current very efficiently from temperature differences. This…
Professor Zhiyong (Richard) Liang and research faculty member Ayou Hao holding pieces of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites with a protective heat shield made of…
Tiny holes punched into a high-temperature superconducting material revealed that Cooper pairs, electron duos that enable superconductivity, can also conduct electricity the way metals do.…

Tubulane Inspired Ultrahard Polymers Are Full of Holes, but Stop Bullets Better Than Solid Materials
Tubulane-like polymer structures created at Rice University were better able to handle the impact of a bullet than the polymer reference cube at bottom right.…
The drawing illustrates the interaction of the organic methylammonium cation (CH3NH3+) with the surrounding iodide ions. The shift of the iodide atoms out of the…
Illustration of a bend in bilayer graphene. Credit: Blanka Janicek, Pinshane Huang Lab New research by engineers at the University of Illinois combines atomic-scale experimentation…
Contamination could be avoided in the situation where laboratory equipment can be controlled by the wave of a hand. © 2019 KAUST A magnetic skin…
Large-scale integrated circuits, LSI, can be used, for example, to power an electrochromic display, itself manufactured as printed electronics. Credit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping…