The European Space Agency is developing a spacecraft structure that can detect its own damage and repair itself in orbit, a ...

Aerospace engineering and materials science researchers at Texas A&M University and the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory have ...

In the German research project bioPEtex, BB Engineering (BBE) is working with other partners to develop textiles made from ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that electrons can be fired across solar cell materials in just 18 ...

Inspired by how bones heal naturally, researchers have engineered a laser-structured hydrogel that could one day replace ...

Scientists have successfully tested a material design for light sails using photonic crystals that could achieve 20% the speed of light ...

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Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers ...

When most people hear "polymer," they think of plastics. In our group, polymerization is a way to line up identical molecules like beads on a string and let quantum mechanics take over. Put magnetic ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...