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20Feb

Self-Healing Materials For Robotics Composed of ‘Jelly’ and Salt

Credit: University of CambridgeScientists have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used to develop realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications.The low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature, and humidity. Furthermore, unlike earlier self-healing robots, they can additionally partially repair themselves at room...

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14Feb

New Plant-Derived Material is Stronger Than Bone and Hard as Aluminum

Scientists from MIT have crafted a new composite material from a greater part of cellulose nanocrystals and a synthetic polymer.Credit: Adam HuntResearch on the new material has been published in the journal Cellulose.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have engineered a new composite material made from cellulose and synthetic polymer. Cellulose fibers...

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29Jan

Revolutionary Carbon-Based Magnetic Material Finally Synthesized After 70 Years

Researchers from Osaka University and Osaka City University synthesize and crystallize a molecule that is usually too unstable to thoroughly study in the laboratory. The molecule is also a model of a revolutionary class of magnets. Since the very first documented production in 2004, researchers have been hard at work utilizing graphene and identical...

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28Oct

New Carbon-Based Catalyst Created for Effective Photo Driven Carbon Dioxide Cycloaddition

Photo-driven catalytic process based on the Al–N–C catalyst. Credit: NIMTEThe team of Professor Chen Liang and Professor Lu Zhiyi's team at the Ningbo Innovation and Product Engineering Institute (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) suggested a highly activated carbon-based catalyst that can make direct use of the renewable resources (e.g., solar energy)...

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28Oct

Magnetic Material 3D Printed From Nonmagnetic Powder

The 3D printer used in the study. Credit: Oleg Dubinin et alResearchers from Skoltech and their coworkers have used a 3D printer to fuse two products in an alloy whose make-up continuously alters from one region of the sample to other, endowing the alloy with magnetic gradient properties. Regardless of the nonmagnetic nature of...

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27Oct

Additively Producing Improved Steel Using Synchrotron X-ray Techniques

A multimodal Investigation of adductively manufactured 316L stainless steel revealing a heterogeneous - and correlative. Credit: Dr. W. Streit Cunningham and Prof. Jason Trelewicz, Stony Brook UniversityLaser additive manufacturing, a form of 3D printing that accumulates parts layer-by-layer by melting and resolidifying steel powders– has ushered in a renaissance for researchers discovering exactly how...

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14Sep

The Meringue-like Product Can Make Airplane as Silent as a Hairdryer

Lightweight aerogel suspended in a honeycomb structure. Credit: University of BathAn exceptionally light new material that can decrease aircraft engine noise and enhance passenger comfort has been established at the University of Bath.The graphene oxide-polyvinyl alcohol aerogel weighs simply 2.1 kg per cubic meter, making it the lightest sound insulation ever before produced. It...

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