Graphene Breakthrough Could Lead To Faster, More Efficient Electronics
Engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a way to grow graphene nanoribbons with desirable semiconducting properties directly on a conventional germanium semiconductor wafer....
View ArticleCornell researchers create the artificial heart of the future
The Breakthrough Researchers from Cornell University have created a heart out of porous plastic foam that can pump more fluid compared to existing models for artificial hearts. This material is banking...
View ArticleThis New Heart Stent Works Like Dissolving Stitches
Dissolving Heart Stent Abbott Vascular has developed a new type of heart stent that dissolves through time once an artery has healed after an artery-opening angioplasty procedure. The stent, called...
View ArticleJapanese Scientists Invent Nearly Unbreakable Glass
Unbreakable Scientists from the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) have managed to create a new type of glass by mixing alumina with silicon dioxide that makes it exceptionally...
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Scientists Make New Form of Gold That’s Nearly as Light as Air
The Breakthrough Researchers in Switzerland have been able to produce gold foam that is almost as light as air. In fact, 98% of it consists of air; the rest is made up of 20-carat gold and milk...
View ArticleScientists Create Most Expensive Material on Earth, Costs $4.2 Billion per Ounce
What It Is £100m per gram. $4.2 billion per ounce. That’s how much the most expensive material on Earth costs. Created by Designer Carbon Materials in an Oxford University lab, “endohedral fullerenes”...
View ArticleChemist Creates the First 100% Recyclable Plastic
The Breakthrough Colorado State University chemist Eugene Chen did the impossible. Or at least, he did the seemingly impossible—creating a polymer material from a monomer that was thought to be...
View ArticleBorophene: This New, 2-Dimensional Material May Be Stronger Than Graphene
The Breakthrough Borophene, a one atom thick sheet of boron, is being introduced by scientists as the next big thing after graphene, another two-dimensional material that made headlines back in 2004....
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New Stretchable and Transparent Heater Made from Metallic Glass
Metallic Glass Researchers from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea have developed a stretchable and transparent electrode using metallic glass. The device can...
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Amazing 3D Printer Can Use 21 Different Metals Simultaneously
NVBOTS, the Boston-based 3D printing startup, has developed a new method of 3D printing metal parts that can use 21 different metals in the same job. The company says the technology is the only one of...
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Reverse Photosynthesis—New Biotech Breakthrough Converts Plants into Biofuel
Reverse Photosynthesis New research published in the journal Nature Communications detail how a team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen have discovered natural process that can break down...
View ArticleCambridge Makes World’s Smallest Engine, And It’s Tiny Enough to Enter Cells
Tiny Engines Researchers from the University of Cambridge have just devised a tiny engine—a really tiny engine—that will likely play a key role in realizing the long-awaited dream of truly functional...
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Scientists Just Engineered Transparent Wood
“Wood” you like to hear something amazing? (sorry, bad pun.) Researchers from the University of Maryland were able to remove the color and chemicals in a block of wood, making it transparent. This new...
View ArticleNew Super-Light Exoskeleton Created to Enhance The Human Body
Full Disclosure We’ve previously covered the amazing potential of the Electrostatic Clutch (EC), an exoskeleton clutch mechanism that promises more lightweight and stronger exoskeletons. Now we are...
View ArticleThis “Self-Healing” Thread Can Alternate Between Firm and Flexible
From Firm to Flexible and Back Again People creating robots, orthopedics, and advanced medical devices now have a new material with which to work as researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
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Researchers Have Designed a Type of Aluminum That’s Lighter Than Water
A Whole New Aluminum The aluminum we have at our disposal will sink when placed in water, but a team of researchers from Utah State University (USU) and the Southern Federal University (SFU) in Russia...
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MIT Created “Smart Materials” That Can Transform Themselves
They will literally reshape the world around us. The post MIT Created “Smart Materials” That Can Transform Themselves appeared first on Futurism.
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Hundreds of 2D Materials Could be the Next Graphene
Finding Supermaterials Graphene, the famous one-atom-thick superconductor, might soon be part of a broader family, as scientists have discovered hundreds of other equally-thin, 2-dimensional materials...
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Customized “Exosuits” Will Move With Your Stride
One Size Doesn’t Fit All You wouldn’t assume that one size fits all for a pair of shoes, so why would you assume the same for an exoskeleton? New research by engineers at the Wyss Institute of Harvard...
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New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full...
If there’s one thing that scientists absolutely should be working on, it’s a self-regenerating robo-Deadpool or the eerily-fluid T-1000 Terminator. Thankfully, a team of scientists just took an...
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