Blue phases are types of liquid crystal phases that appear in a temperature range between a chiral nematic phase and an isotropic liquid phase. Because blue phases have a three-dimensional cubic ...

Synchrotron-generated x-rays can be used to probe what happens when liquids solidify into disordered solids, a process that has puzzled physicists for decades ...

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Korea is expected to enter the super-aging era at the fastest rate globally, and a wide range of its consumers in the market are expected to be comprised of its ...

Using five ingredients — silicon, boron, carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen — an engineer has created a liquid polymer that can transform into a ceramic with valuable thermal, optical and electronic ...

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Conditioning is a method made famous by Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs. Pavlov trained a dog by ringing a bell every time the dog was fed. The dog learned to associate the bell with food, and ...

The growth of the polymer clay market is predominantly driven by the development of the toy industry in developing economies of South and East Asia as well as in North America and Europe. The growing ...

A new technique for producing self-folding three-dimensional origami structures from photo-curable liquid polymer materials created these tiny samples, held in a hand for size comparison. Rob Felt, ...

What if there were a fabric that, like Superman, could take a bullet and self-heal? Such a super-dynamic, action-powered polymer might actually help protect real-life flyers in space. Material ...