Super-elastic, self-healing “glassy gels” made from ionic solvents and polymers could one day become key components in 3D-printing and soft robots. And despite being composed of between 50-and ...

Tear-resistant rubbery materials could pave the way for tougher tires. Weak “cross-linkers” inserted into the materials make them harder to tear ...

Ferroelectric materials possess “spontaneous polarization,” meaning their electrical charge can be switched on and off with an electric field. This property is crucial for next-gen electronics. But ...

Natural and human-made rubber can change its shape and come back again. Materials that can do this are called “elastic”. Elastic materials are useful in lots of ways: Similar to how tires and sneakers ...

However, switching to elastic materials came with its challenges. “Elastic materials deform and require image correction,” Bouzbib notes. Still, the team developed a working system that allows ...

Flexible sensors, leveraging their stretchable sensing properties based on elastomeric materials, are demonstrating increasingly widespread and urgent application demands in emerging fields such ...

The Future of Materials Science in Olympic Sports Material science has revolutionized sports in many ways and is expected to continue advancing the field. For instance, advancements in nanotechnology ...

Effective elastic properties: The overall stiffness and deformation behaviour of a composite material, reflecting the combined contribution of all constituent phases.

These are among 21 projects funded by the latest round of innovation grants from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, totaling more than $3 million. Since 2008, innovation awards have ...