Hydrogels, soft and water-rich materials, have long fascinated researchers because of their potential in medical and ...

A novel porous material capable of separating deuterium (D2) from hydrogen (H2) at a temperature of 120 K (-153°C) has been ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid ...

POSTECH, Samsung SDI, Northwestern University, and Chung-Ang University improved the battery durability and energy density ...

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Empa researchers are working on producing artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a ...

A Jilin University team has reported a novel strategy using pressure engineering to identify the organic–inorganic interaction sites in non-hydrogen-bonded hybrid metal perovskites. This ...

By implementing multi-walled carbon nanotube structures on the surface of battery electrode materials, scientists can absorb ...

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Empa researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of ...

"Humans have used elastic materials for millennia for an almost infinite number of applications, but the molecular origin of the restoring force remained elusive until now." ...