Materials

Researchers working on eyeglasses that change into sunglasses on command

31 Jan 2015

Scaffolding is in charge of calcium carbonate crystals

27 Jan 2015

Perovskites boost silicon solar cells: study

24 Jan 2015

Putting a film of the crystalline material perovskite on top of a silicon solar cell increases the cell's efficiency nearly 50 per cent, Stanford engineers say

Study shows material can be both magnetic and electrically charged

24 Jan 2015

Laser-induced graphene ‘super’ for electronics

22 Jan 2015

New fibres can deliver many simultaneous stimuli

22 Jan 2015

Implanted into the brain or spinal column, they can transmit drugs, light, and electrical signals

Scientists use "pen and ink" to control how materials interact with light

21 Jan 2015

New type of glass material could boost smartphone battery life: study

20 Jan 2015

Carbon nanotubes could lead to flexible electronics with longer battery life

16 Jan 2015

Researchers produce new wonder material: Black Phosphorus

15 Jan 2015

Nanomaterial to drive new generation of electric car battery

14 Jan 2015

Atomic placement of elements counts for strong concrete

13 Jan 2015

Cheap asphalt provides ‘green’ carbon capture

12 Jan 2015

Rice University scientists develop two-dimensional, light-sensitive material

10 Jan 2015

Contact lens merges plastics and active electronics via 3-D printing

07 Jan 2015

The contact lens is part of an ongoing effort to use 3-D printing to assemble diverse, and often hard-to-combine, materials into functioning devices

Titanium metal foam may help fuse metal into bones to repair damages

27 Dec 2014

The porus metallic foam allows the bone to grow around and within it, truly integrating the implant with the skeleton

Researchers create tunable photon-pair spectrum using room-temperature quantum optics silicon chip

26 Dec 2014

Metallic bubble wraps revolunise packaging to automobile body casting

26 Dec 2014

Heart disease biggest killer in India and globally: study

18 Dec 2014

Defects are perfect in laser-induced graphene

13 Dec 2014

Chemicals released during natural gas extraction may harm human reproduction, development

12 Dec 2014

Material made of single-atom layers snap together like Legos

10 Dec 2014

The new material — made of a layer of graphene and a layer of tungsten disulphide — could be used in solar cells and flexible electronics

Protons fuel graphene prospects

09 Dec 2014

Engineers invent high-tech mirror to beam heat away from buildings into space

01 Dec 2014

A new ultra-thin multi-layered material can cool buildings without air conditioning by radiating warmth from inside the buildings into space while also reflecting sunlight to reduce incoming heat