New theory offers insights into the origin of the very low and negative thermal expansion observed in cordierite ...

Recently, a research team uncovered the propagation and toughening mechanism of tortuous crack front in bioinspired ...

McGill University researchers have expanded the capabilities of kirigami-inspired metamaterials to achieve anisotropic ...

Finding new angles on an old artform, McGill researchers have increased the number of stable shapes that kirigami-based ...

Anisotropic materials play a critical role in today's manufacturing processes and other applications. Their unique ability to retain their shape under extreme thermal conditions has made these ...

Yonsei researchers develop metal semiconductors to replace silicon devices Researchers at Yonsei University unveil ...

"We are achieving a shading system that opens and closes autonomously in response to changes in the weather, without the need for operational energy or any mechatronic elements. The bio-material ...

Finding new angles on an old artform, McGill researchers have increased the number of stable shapes that kirigami-based engineered materials can take ...

Hardness is an important property of materials that determines their ability to resist deformations and other damages (dents, ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a scientific research team from China revealed a new structural ...

Skoltech researchers have presented a new simple physical model for predicting the hardness of materials based on information ...

Using pine cones as a model, researchers at the universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg have developed a new, ...