Detailed analysis has estimated a LEGO brick could survive in the ocean for as many as 1,300 years. Credit: Andrew Turner, University of Plymouth A…
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Cell therapies hold great promise for revolutionizing the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases. But this multibillion-dollar industry requires long-term storage of cells at super-cold…
3D rendering of polymer chains near the asperities of a rough substrate. Faster molecules were pictured by warmer colors. Credit: © ULB Roughness, the presence…
The newly developed material conducts heat well along the layers, while at the same time providing thermal insulation vertically. Credit: MPI-P, Licence CC-BY-SA Styrofoam or…
Materials science and engineering professor Christopher Evans, right, and graduate student Brian Jing have developed a solid battery electrolyte that is both self-healing and recyclable.…
Sustainable Adhesive. Credit: Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography Sustainable Adhesives of the Future Won’t Stick Around Plastics of the future should, ideally for the…
Getting prepared for Electrospinning. Credit: © University of Bayreuth / Jürgen Rennecke. Researchers at the University of Bayreuth develop unique multifibrillar fibers. Strong and tough…
NTU SPMS Asst Prof Soo Han Sen with the plastic-photocatalyst mixture, which when exposed to sunlight converts the plastic to formic acid, a useful chemical.…
Around billions of nanodisks deposited onto area of 1 cm2. Each one of them reacts to the incident light and creates plasmons. Credit: Conceptualized Creating…
Cross-Linking Technology Tightly Binds Where Commercial Glues Cannot With many of the products we use every day held together by adhesives, researchers from UBC’s Okanagan…
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have created a suite of new biological sensors by chemically re-engineering pigments to act like tiny Venus flytraps. The sensors…
Light makes the conditioned liquid crystal move. Credit: Aalto University, Tampere University, Cell Press Researchers trained material the same way as Pavlov trained dogs. Conditioning…
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…
Skoltech researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS and the Ural Federal University have shown that high-capacity…
Here’s a visualization of what a RED cell looks like. The hydrogen is produced at the cathode end and oxygen is produced at the anode…
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,…
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.…
MIT engineers have developed a way to encapsulate nutrients in a biocompatible polymer, making it easier to use them to fortify foods. Credit: Second Bay…
A new type of polymer designed by MIT chemists incorporates a special monomer (yellow) that helps the polymers to break down more easily under certain…
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…