Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

Finger implants, such as these, feature PEEK-on-PEEK articulating surfaces. The material may reduce the risk of wear particles accumulating in the body. Each year, approximately 1.4 million joint ...

The plastics industry is in flux, as there is an increasing push to replace petroleum-based materials with sustainable alternatives. But sustainability alone is not enough. Bio-based plastics need to ...

For a long time, material development has focused on enhancing performance and reducing costs. Efforts have been directed toward making products lighter, tougher, better insulated, more beautiful, ...

Researchers develop a versatile mechanophore that glows when mechanically stressed and avoids false warnings from heat and UV ...

What is a Harsh Environment? Numerous industrial applications, including space exploration, aerospace missions, the automobile sector, the down-hole oil and gas business, and geothermal power plants, ...

Materials suppliers are responding to the intense pressures to improve power, performance, scaling, and cost issues, which follows a long timeline from synthesis to development and high volume ...

In the past, ships used to be built from timber. In 1670, naval shipwright Sir Anthony Deane built the first royal ship mostly from iron. He was confronted with resistance and was said to be using ...

Move over, graphene. There's a new, improved two-dimensional material in the lab. Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, ...

A decade ago, Northwestern chemistry professor Mercouri Kanatzidis and other scientists discovered that cesium lead bromide, a material being studied for applications in solar cells, has the ability ...