Scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley convert diamonds’ atomic flaws into atomic sensors with front-row seats to a quantum world of materials under extreme pressure Since their invention m... Read more
The building blocks of rationally designed chemicals are simple elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and so on. These elements can be combined in myriad ways to accomplish a variety of chemica... Read more
Scientists studied fluid mechanics to simulate and build a squidlike robot that’s fast, quiet and hard to see. Inspired by the unique and efficient swimming strategy of cephalopods, sc... Read more
Smart materials change properties in response to specific DNA sequences; could be used in a variety of devices. The CRISPR genome-editing system is best-known for its potential to correct di... Read more
Smart wearable technology that changes colour, heats up, squeezes or vibrates as your emotions are heightened has the potential to help people with affective disorders better control their f... Read more
Researchers have used sound waves to precisely manipulate atoms and molecules, accelerating the sustainable production of breakthrough smart materials. Metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, are... Read more
Serendipitous discovery could increase efficiency in jet engines, reduce plane noise, more A group of new smart materials discovered by researchers at Texas A&M University and their coll... Read more
University of Virginia mechanical engineers and materials scientists, in collaboration with materials scientists at Penn State, the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Stand... Read more
3D printing techniques have quickly become some of the most widely used tools to rapidly design and build new components. A team of engineers at the University of Bristol has developed a new... Read more
Once we can control any material—from metal to wood to plastic—static objects will become a thing of the past. Plants moving toward the sun, proteins folding into complex structures in respo... Read more
Smart clothing that can camouflage itself against different backgrounds If you’ve ever watched a cephalopod such as a squid changing color, then you’ll know that it’s a pretty amazing proces... Read more
They’re known as smart materials, memory materials or shape memory alloys, but it all boils down to the same thing: materials that hold one shape, but then take on another at a certain tempe... Read more
