A flexible, stretchable, self-healing ionic conductor (w/video)

Scientists have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles and could be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.

Programmable silk-based materials with embedded, pre-designed functions

Process enables creation of mechanical components with functionality, such as surgical pins that change color with strain.

Nanodiscs deliver personalized cancer therapy to immune system

Researchers have had initial success in mice using nanodiscs to deliver a customized therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of colon and melanoma cancer tumors.

Researchers use world's smallest diamonds to make wires 3 atoms wide

LEGO-style building method has potential for making 1-dimensional materials with extraordinary properties.

Curved kick on the nanoscale: Investigations of the skyrmion Hall effect reveal surprising results

One step further towards the application of skyrmions in spintronic devices.

Light opens and closes windows in membranes

Scientists have developed novel membranes, whose selectivity can be switched dynamically with the help of light. For this purpose, azobenzene molecules were integrated into membranes made of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

Stability challenge in perovskite solar cell technology

New research results suggest that the degradation of MAPbI3 perovskites may not be a fixable issue.