What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...

A method has been developed by an international team of researchers that uses liquid metal to produce an elastic material that is virtually immune to both gases and liquids. The material can be used ...

Researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute have demonstrated improved and more affordable catalytic materials used to produce ...

It's not "flubber," but researchers at UMass Amherst have engineered a new rubber-like solid substance that they say has "remarkable" energy qualities. "It's really a composite between an elastic ...

A new elastic calcium phosphate material that closely resembles the structure of human bone has been successfully created by a research team from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the ...

AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they had engineered a new rubber-like ...

Researchers from Shandong University and the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics have engineered a groundbreaking elastic ...

AMHERST, Mass.—The snap of a Venus fly trap, the packed punch of a mantis shrimp's dactyl clubs or the leap of a trap-jaw ant are just a few examples of many "lightning quick" responses found in ...