Using a servo-controlled truss, a unique 3D surface can dynamically transition between absorption, reflection, and ...

Based on the interlocking structure of chainmail, this material has all the best parts of both solids and liquids.

Plastic waste is a growing environmental crisis, with thermosets among the most problematic materials. These durable plastics, used in car tires, replacement hip joints, and aerospace coatings, resist ...

Air conditioning and refrigeration consume about 20% of global electricity, relying on century-old vapor-compression ...

Researchers have created a recyclable, bio-based alternative to thermoset plastics using dihydrofuran (DHF). Cornell ...

Designing a proton-exchange membrane that will balance the efficiency, durability and safety requirements for hydrogen ...

Find out how researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed stretchable, self-healing 'jelly batteries' that could ...

Researchers at Cornell University create a novel thermoset using dihydrofuran, enabling chemical recycling and natural ...

Unlocking Plastic Recycling Since their widespread adoption by the manufacturing industry in the 1960s, plastics have become an omnipresent material in our daily lives. They are also the cause of very ...

Researchers have developed a recyclable alternative to a durable class of plastics used for items like car tires, replacement hip joints and bowling balls.

Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, ...

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have succeeded in creating a close connection between individual cells and ...