Innovation continues apace in textile design and development. Much of these advancements – building on the pioneering polymer work of Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar while at DuPont in the 1960s – are geared toward military applications, including l
full story >>
The big push in graphene research for electronics has been overcoming its lack of an inherent band gap. But silicon has another leg up on graphene when it comes to electronics applications: it can comparatively easily be p- and n-doped (positive and nega
Continue reading >>We’ve been hearing for years now about how metamaterials will make invisibility cloaks possible, but so far no one has been able to make the materials in big enough pieces for them to be useful. A new printing method developed by John Rogers, a materials
Continue reading >>Like it or not, the world’s population consumes a whole lot of meat, and the by-products have to go somewhere. Blood is one of the most abundant waste materials on the planet. After a cow is drained of its approximately eight gallons of it, the blood is u
Continue reading >>Chungpin Liao, a professor at the Graduate School of Electro-Optic and Material Science of National Formosa University in Taiwan has invented an organic battery that creates electricity when wet.The "organic" battery generates a charge within 10 seconds a
Continue reading >>Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers are essential in modern agriculture and crucial to meeting the ever-growing global food demand. Nitrogen fertilizer, in the form of ammonia, is produced now in the same way that it has been for close to a century—by the
Continue reading >>
