Redwood Materials' new smart recycling bins can detect, sort and pack old batteries and gadgets with minimal human ...

Perovskite crystals can dramatically and reversibly change shape when hit with light, a behavior not seen in conventional ...

KUTV — The future of home design was on full display at Design & Construction Week, the annual mega-event that brings together the biggest names and brightest ideas in residential design and the ...

A surprising property of rice has inspired the creation of a new class of engineered materials. Rice behaves in an unexpected way under pressure. When compressed quickly, it becomes weaker, but under ...

Their findings are published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. The researchers explored the tactile sensing platform, utilizing 3D-printed auxetic metamaterials in both capacitive and ...

Rewritable smart materials and colour switching technologies represent a burgeoning field at the interface of chemistry, materials science and engineering. These systems offer a sustainable ...

These novel materials can change, fix, and retain their shape reversibly by using magnetic fields and ultraviolet light. (Nanowerk News) Magnetic micropillar arrays consist of tiny, vertical ...