An international team of scientists, including researchers from Loughborough University, has developed a method to dramatically speed up the discovery and design of advanced materials. The study, ...

Topological interlocking materials and structures represent an innovative design approach in which individual, often geometrically complex, elements are arranged to mutually constrain one another.

These supramolecular interactions, as they are known, allow proteins to adapt their properties – and therefore their ...

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...

A tightly packed ball of office staples can be surprisingly strong. Try to pull it apart and the tangled metal resists like a ...

In the future, there could be materials that can reconfigure themselves on demand, adapting their structure and properties like living organisms. A team of Japanese scientists have created a ...

Mesoporous materials are a class of nanomaterials characterized by their highly ordered porous structure with pore sizes ranging from 2 to 50 nanometers. These materials possess large surface areas, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The materials we interact with every day—whether they are steel, glass, or rubber—have properties like strength, flexibility, or brittleness that stem from their chemical ...

A Korean research team has developed a flexible yet strong material by mimicking the structure of an abalone shell. With higher electrical storage efficiency than conventional insulators, it is ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Loughborough University, has developed a method to dramatically speed up the discovery and design of advanced materials.