Developing roads that can generate power from passing traffic
Researchers are looking at advanced materials for roads and pavements that could generate electricity from passing traffic.
Sep 18, 2017
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Smart materials used in ultrasound behave similar to water, chemists report
A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania is gaining new insight into the smart materials used in ultrasound technology. While forming the most thorough model to date of how these materials work, they have found ...
Researcher's 'miracle material' discovery could end cracked smart devices
Currently, most parts of a smart phone are made of silicon and other compounds, which are expensive and break easily, but with almost 1.5 billion smart phones purchased worldwide last year, manufacturers are on the lookout ...
3-D printing turns nanomachines into life-size workers
Using advanced 3-D printing, Dartmouth College researchers have unlocked the key to transforming microscopic nanorings into smart materials that perform work at human-scale.
Scientists develop nanofluid-based materials for impact absorption and passive sensors
Experts of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) are developing new smart nanofluidic materials that will enable manufacturing more advanced sensors, detectors, dampers, valves and tactile devices for the ...
Mood ring materials—a new way to detect damage in failing infrastructure
"Mood ring materials" could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation's failing infrastructure.
New smart textile is the muscle behind next generation devices
Researchers have for the first time, developed a smart textile from carbon nanotube and spandex fibres that can both sense and move in response to a stimulus like a muscle or joint.
Shape-shifting materials could be crucial in tight spaces – such as inside our bodies
The rise of 3-D printing means it's now easy to create objects to any design we like from scratch, something that's already finding particular use in medicine, with 3-D printed customised prosthetics or even replacement bones ...
Squeezing out opal-like colors by the mile
The team, led by the University of Cambridge, have invented a way to make such sheets on industrial scales, opening up applications ranging from smart clothing for people or buildings, to banknote security.
Stepless control devices with flexible pressure sensors
Silicone is so soft and flexible that it is easily deformed by the pressure of a finger. Researchers at Fraunhofer have recently created sensors made from this flexible material, making it easier to steplessly control devices. ...
