1+ week, 1+ day ago  (121+ words) image: Design and Functional Schematic of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Units Based on Natural Polymers view more Breaking the "Functional Island" Dilemma The "Blob Model": From Rigid Particles to Flexible Chains Rather than simply mixing components at the macroscopic level, the research…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (257+ words) image: Graphical abstract CREDIT Jeon et al. / Device view more Credit: Device / Jeon et al. Historically, bone implants have been made of metal, donor bone, or even more recently 3 D-printed material. However, in cases involving irregular bone breaks, these implants…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (345+ words) A team of researchers from KAIST and Seoul National University has developed a groundbreaking electronic ink that enables room-temperature printing of variable-stiffness circuits capable of switching between rigid and soft modes. This advancement marks a significant leap toward next-generation wearable,…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (46+ words) Eurek Alert! Scheme for topology optimization-based design of thermoelectric generator and experimental validation by 3 D printing More on this News Release Computer-designed thermoelectric generator achieves more than eightfold improvement in efficiency...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (99+ words) Eurek Alert! Researcher holds up one of these programmable knot robots with forceps showing how something not much bigger than a grain of rice can pack a serious punch in the world of soft, automated robotics. Bella Ciervo at Penn…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (362+ words) Denizhan Yavas, assistant teaching professor of mechanical engineering at Rice. As space agencies and private companies look toward sustained human presence on the moon, a fundamental challenge centers on how to build strong, durable infrastructure without hauling every material from…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (291+ words) image: Biological neurons growing over and through a layer of a 3 D electronic mesh. Researchers programmed the device to recognize patterns. Image courtesy of the researchers view more Princeton researchers have combined brain cells and advanced electronics into a single…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (197+ words) image: The Chinese characters the researchers used to create their metamaterials (top); the unit cell design for each character (middle); the metamaterial created for each character (bottom). view more Credit: Chloe Doey Leung and Parvez Alam WASHINGTON, April 21, 2026 " From the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1432+ words) Visitors to this year's Hannover Messe can experience a sudden drop in temperature at first hand " all brought about by simply stretching a metal alloy and then releasing it again. The underlying elastocaloric technology offers a cleaner, greener alternative to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (496+ words) In its Cera MMAM project, a team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a system with which high-performance components can be produced from multiple materials in a single process using a universal binder system. This…...