Researchers from North Carolina State University have created stretchable, transparent conductors that work because of the structures' "nano-accordion" design. The conductors could be used in a wide ...

Transparent materials have become an essential component in a wide variety of technological applications, ranging from everyday electronics like tablets and smartphones to more sophisticated uses in ...

Chinese researchers have developed a kind of highly-elastic ferroelectric material, offering broad prospect for the material to be applied in intelligent wearables, article in Science revealed.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, No. 2 (January 9, 2018), pp. E124-E133 (10 pages) Achieving control and tunability of lyotropic materials has ...

The nanoindentation technique is extensively used for characterization of mechanical properties in small volumes. Due to its local character, the nanoindentation technique has also recently been used ...

Plastics, which are polymeric materials composed of long chains of small molecules called monomers, are widely used in everyday life and industry due to their lightweight, good strength and ...

Scientists in Japan working to stretch the limits of super-elastic materials have made a significant breakthrough, demonstrating a new iron-based alloy that endures extremely high and low temperatures ...

A research team from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has successfully developed a novel elastic calcium phosphate ...