Researchers from the University of Minho in Portugal started with silicone rubber polymer and added zirconia nanoparticles to ...

Essentially, the tufts of tiny hairs on gecko feet get so close to the contours in walls and ceilings that electrons from the ...

Traditional anti-slip materials, such as natural rubber, repel water. But on ice, this approach can backfire. The pressure ...

Geckos are able to maintain a grip on wet surfaces not because their toe pads repel water, but because they attract it. A new ...

Slips and falls account for millions of injuries each year. Researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces took ...

Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China State Key Laboratory of Solid ...

research and development in materials science. Major trends in the forecast period include miniaturization, 3D printing, proliferation of internet of things (IoT), anti-static films with ...

research and development in materials science. Major trends in the forecast period include miniaturization, 3D printing, proliferation of internet of things (IoT), anti-static films with integrated ...

No satisfactory explanation of the fatigue mechanism of metals has yet been advanced. The generally accepted idea involving work-hardening and subsequent ‘brittle’ fracture cannot be ...