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
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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 >>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and collaborators are developing a new military uniform material that repels chemical and biological agents using a novel carbon nanotube fabric.
Continue reading >>Nanotechnology refers to the interactions of cellular and molecular components and engineered materials—typically, clusters of atoms, molecules, and molecular fragments into incredibly small particles—between 1 and 100 nm. Nanometer-sized particles have n
Continue reading >>Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Bio Energy Institute researchers genetically engineered the first to create a switchgrass biomass can digest the E. coli (Escherichia coli bacteria), to transform its sugar into the replace gasoline, diesel an
Continue reading >>Self-healing materials will eventually fix anything from cell phone screens to car fenders, enabling surfaces to heal on their own in the presence of different types of light. But none of the earlier prototypes we’ve seen work quite like this new plastic:
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