SCIENCE
Overview: Science
How light a foldable and long-lasting battery can be?
16/12/2019
The research team led by Professor Soojin Park developed a three-dimensional monolithic organic battery electrode.
New material design tops carbon-capture from wet flue gases
16/12/2019
Chemical engineers at EPFL have designed a material that can capture carbon dioxide from wet flue gasses better than current commercial materials. The work is published in Nature.
Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist, and grab
13/12/2019
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University has developed a soft polymer material, called magnetic shape memory polymer, that uses magnetic fields to transform into a variety of shapes. The material could enable a range of new applications from antennas that change frequencies on the fly to gripper arms for delicate or heavy objects.How to induce magnetism in graphene
13/12/2019
Graphene, a two-dimensional structure made of carbon, is a material with excellent mechani-cal, electronic and optical properties. However, it did not seem suitable for magnetic applica-tions. Together with international partners, Empa researchers have now succeeded in synthesizing a unique nanographene predicted in the 1970s, ...
Stretchy and squeezy soft sensors one step closer thanks to new bonding method
12/12/2019
Imperial College London bioengineers have found a way to create stretchy and squeezy soft sensing devices by bonding rubber to electrical components.
Creating switchable plasmons in plastics
11/12/2019
Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting polymer. The antennas can be switched on and off, and will make possible a completely new type of controllable nano-optical components.
A sustainable new material for carbon dioxide capture
11/12/2019
In a joint research study from Sweden, scientists from Chalmers University of Technology and Stockholm University have developed a new material for capturing carbon dioxide. The new material offers many benefits - it is sustainable, has a high capture rate, and has low operating costs. The research has been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Researchers add order to polymer gels
10/12/2019
Gel-like materials have a wide range of applications, especially in chemistry and medicine. However, their usefulness is sometimes limited by their inherent random and disordered nature. Researchers from the University of Tokyo's Institute for Solid State Physics have found a way to produce a new kind of gel which overcomes this limitation.
'Buildings' in human bone may hold key to stronger 3D-printed lightweight structures
10/12/2019
The discovery of how a 'beam' in human bone material handles a lifetime's worth of wear and tear could translate to the development of 3D-printed lightweight materials that last long enough for more practical use in buildings, aircraft and other structures.Graphene takes off in composites for planes and cars
09/12/2019
The Graphene Flagship brought together top European researchers and companies to discuss the most disruptive ways graphene could enhance composites used in the aerospace, automotive and energy industries.