A new kind of 3D-printable material that can stretch, flex and still stay friendly to living cells could change how medical ...

A breakthrough development in nanofabrication could help support the development of new wireless, flexible, high-performance ...

Making a paper airplane in school used to mean trouble. Today it signals a promising discovery in materials science research that could help next-generation technology –like wearable energy storage ...

The picture that pops up before our inner eye when we hear the word "satellite" is probably this: Two extended solar "wings" ...

As fields ranging from health care to robotics increasingly use flexible materials for electronic devices, Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a thickness-dependent metric that allows ...

In the fields of intelligent health care and robotic sensing, the development of ultra-thin flexible temperature sensors ...

Broad success of ExOne’s patented Triple Advanced Compaction Technology (ACT), combined with a market-leading portfolio of binders, is enabling binder jetting of a wider range of powder types with a ...

Figure 1: Flexibility, defects and disorder in metal-organic frameworks. One aspect of the flexibility of MOFs is their general softness (in the terminology of elasticity) or compliance, that is, ...

The rapid growth of e-commerce and its need for an always-on supply chain means that manufacturers are having to rethink the way they move materials to and from stock and around the factory floor.