Until relatively recent times, most periods of technological development have been linked to changes in the use of materials (eg the stone, bronze and iron ages). In more recent years the driving ...

Smart Materials Conference grandly Welcomes the participants from all over the world to attend “ 8th International Conference on " Smart Materials and Structures " will be held during August 01-02, ...

A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By ...

Scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for creating colors that can change on command. These are structural ...

The use of novel materials and new structural concepts nowadays is not restricted to highly technical areas like aerospace, aeronautical applications or the automotive industry, but affects all ...

Materials are a necessity for all engineering applications. Materials science and engineering seeks to understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties ...

New research details how origami structures and bio-inspired design can be used to create a crawling robot. New research from a team of University of Illinois Mechanical Science and engineering ...

This artificial muscle is a twisted and coiled bundle of carbon fibers embedded in silicone rubber which is powered by electricity, according to a new study published in the journal Smart Materials ...

Scientists have developed a new method to make proteins form crystals using 'smart materials' that remember the shape and characteristics of the molecule. The technique, reported today in Proceedings ...

Researchers developed a system of self-assembling polymer microparticles with adjustable concentrations of two types of attached residues. They found that tuning the concentration of each type allowed ...