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The materials that will be game-changers in solar technology, medical applications, defense technologies and nanotechnology.
Single Flexible Fiber Delivers Signals In The Brain
A single flexible fiber no bigger than a human hair has successfully delivered a combination of optical,…
Metamaterial Achieves Performance Predicted By Theoretical Bounds
In 2015 Jonathan Berger, UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist, developed an idea that could…
Mission Impossible Self-Destructing Gadgets Not So Impossible
A new self-destruct mechanism can destroy electronics within 10 seconds through wireless commands or the triggering…
Laser Efficiency Boosted By ‘Lossless’ Metamaterial
A material that could reduce signal losses in photonic devices has been developed by engineers at the University of…
‘Wonder’ materials to revolutionize flexible tech
Following a breakthrough in measuring two-dimensional 'wonder' materials by the University of Warwick, gadgets are…
Bandages Light Up When In Contact With Certain Chemicals
A new 'living material'—a tough, stretchy, biocompatible sheet of hydrogel injected with live cells that are…
Move Over Flubber, Here Comes ‘Thubber’
Representing a breakthrough in creating soft, stretchable machines and electronics, a thermally conductive rubber…
Material For Electronic Devices Improved With Nano-Level Lubricant
It has recently been shown that molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), may have a two-dimensional (2D) form that is similar…
New Material Keeping Structures Chilled Out This Summer
A scalable manufactured Metamaterial, (an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature)…
First versatile 2D material grown by researchers
Among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of an exceptional 2D material called tungsten…