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Compressing this soft material blocks a wide range of wavelengths, including visible light (left), and stretching it out lets them through (right).

Squid-inspired soft material is a switchable shield for light, heat, microwaves

Categories Technology

MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like conditions. Pictured are the hydrogel discs swollen in water. Credits:Image: Gustav Graeber and Carlos D. Díaz-Marín

Engineers Develop Superabsorbent Material for Harvesting Water from Desert Air

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

A snapshot of a lattice of frustrated nanomagnets.

Nanomagnetic strings that wiggle and hook up

Categories Physics & Mathematics

Amin Nozariasbmarz, Yu Zhang, Bed Poudel, Wenjie Li and Na Liu, left to right, researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, display the thermoelectric modules they created. Credit: Provided . All Rights Reserved.

Breakthrough in waste heat to green energy

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

This image was generated using Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generator, using the prompt “researchers working with huge piles of data.” UW–Madison’s Dane Morgan and Maciej Polak have published their solution for training ChatGPT to read academic articles, tabulate key data and check the results for accuracy, thereby saving valuable research time.

ChatGPT makes materials research much more efficient

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Technology

Chemical engineering professor Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus and chemistry assistant professor Dr. Daniel Tabor have discovered significant storage capacity in water-based batteries.

Team finds major storage capacity in water-based batteries

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Superconductivity at Ordinary Temperatures

Categories Bloggers

A drone used to detect radiation hovers near the tennis courts at the intermural fields on West Campus at University Park during the drone demonstration July 12, 2022, at the 2022 Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter Technical Review. Credit: Jamie Oberdick/Materials Research Institute . All Rights Reserved.

Alliance works to keep America prepared for nuclear incidents

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Social Sciences

Cryoclastic flow caused by liquid nitrogen poured on lunar dust simulant.

Pffft-pffft: Liquid Nitrogen Spray Removes Pesky Moon Dust from Spacesuits

Categories Space, Technology

Conventional plastic straws and corn plastic straws did not decompose after 120 days under marine conditions. They have preserved their shape and lost only 5% of their total weight. In the meantime, eco-friendly straws developed by the research team lost more than 50% of their weight after 60 days and decomposed completely after 120 days.

100% biodegradable paper straws that do not become soggy

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

For their artificial fairy, Hao Zeng and Jianfeng Yang got inspired by dandelion seeds.

Fairy-like robot flies by the power of wind and light

Categories Technology

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Professor Bharat Jalan is co-leading a team that has developed a new method for making nano-membranes of “smart” materials, which will allow scientists to harness their unique properties for use in devices such as sensors and flexible electronics.

New process to create freestanding membranes of ‘smart’ materials

Categories Technology

Polar bear at the zoo

Polar bear paws hold the secret to better tire traction

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics, Technology

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