Scientists fused natural silk fibers into a super-strong material that rivals Kevlar and could reshape medicine and 6G technology.
Silk isn't just great as a smooth fabric for luxurious clothing: it's finding a wide range of uses in everything from edible food-preserving wrappers to skin-friendly wearable health monitoring ...
Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials engineers reveal a fabric 'muscle' that makes the wearer stronger and increases ...
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New heat-pressed silk material outperforms wood, rivals Kevlar and carbon fiber
Researchers from Tufts University, Imperial College London, and the University of Michigan have developed ...
It may not be as catchy a name as Iron Man, but in a fight you might be better off betting on Glass DNA Nanolattice Man instead. Engineers at the University of Connecticut have developed a very strong ...
A newly developed bacterial cellulose manufacturing technique could lead to strong, multifunctional materials capable of ...
Titanium is a hexagonally close-packed metal with a density of 4,950 kg/m 3; it can have a specific strength (the ratio of the yield strength to the density) that is greater than that of some (but not ...
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A recent study in Nature Communications explored nanoporous amorphous carbon nanopillars, produced using an innovative method that combines self-assembled polymeric carbon precursors with nanoimprint ...
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