Materials research and characterisation – composites, polymers and the analytical instruments used to study them.
37 articles
Scientists from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have discovered how a biomineral can generate two mollusk structures as different as the...
Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden have created electronic plants. The staff at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics inserted semi-conductive polymers inside living flowers, trees and...
Researchers from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have developed an injectable biogel that can deliver anti-cancer agents directly into the tumors. The technique,...
Researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed materials that have the ability to fix its scratches. A a that can be integrated in flexible devices...
Scientists from the Australian research center CSIRO have developed a new coating method based on the prebiotic materials that generated the first biomolecules. The cell-friendly polymer allowed the...
A team of scientists has developed a 3D printing material that kills bacteria on contact. Material scientist Andreas Herrmann, from the University of Groningen, collaborated...
An ultra-thin sheet of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) could let water molecules pass through tiny nanopores at a high rate while keeping ions and any contaminants. The authors...
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a method to design 3D sculptures at atomic level with an electron microscope. The crystalline structures size...
