Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a first-of-its-kind self-healing gel that repairs and connects electronic circuits, crea... Read more
A smaller system makes on-the-spot detection easier and cheaper As the role of pesticides in the decline of pollinator populations and their potential effect on health becomes clearer, it is... Read more
Cornell University researchers have developed a new lightweight and stretchable material with the consistency of memory foam that has potential for use in prosthetic body parts, artificial o... Read more
New research may revolutionize the slow, cumbersome and expensive process of detecting the antibodies that can help with the diagnosis of infectious and auto-immune diseases such as rheumato... Read more
In order to cut down fewer trees and avoid wasting water, a group of young Mexicans designed a system that converts used PET bottles into mineral paper or peta paper, which is biodegradable... Read more
Flexible electronic sensors based on paper — an inexpensive material — have the potential to cut the price of a wide range of medical tools, from helpful robots to diagnostic tests. Scientis... Read more
A new, low-cost way of making things THERE are more than a dozen sorts of three-dimensional (3D) printer. They all build up objects, layer by layer, but what the layers are made of varies fr... Read more
So cheap and easy to manufacture that they’ll literally be disposable, single use items. The term “UAV” generally leads us to think about expensive, high-tech military dron... Read more
Taking inspiration from trees, scientists have developed a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmenta... Read more
The modified paper could be used as the foundation for a new generation of inexpensive biomedical diagnostics Paper is known for its ability to absorb liquids, making it ideal for products s... Read more
Paper, being a light and foldable raw material, is a cost-efficient and simple means of generating electrically conducting structures Paper is becoming a high-tech material. Researchers at t... Read more
Eco-innovation is at its best when the waste of one industry becomes the raw material of another. This is precisely what the EU funded research project CAPS, is attempting to do with waste s... Read more
Repap is paper spelt backwards. It is also a new material that can be used as paper would be, to doodle on, to write upon frenetically or to make aerodynamic planes. But repap is not actuall... Read more
intelliPaper seamlessly turns an ordinary strip of paper into a fully functioning USB drive USB drives have become so prolific in recent years that they’ve become practically disposabl... Read more
A current focus in global health research is to make medical tests that are not just cheap, but virtually free. One such strategy is to start with paper – one of humanity’s oldest technologi... Read more
