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3D-Printed Smart Gel Changes Shape When Exposed to Light

January 5, 2021 sarah Jonas 3d printing, Camouflage, Cells, Colors, Communication, Displays, electronic displays, Electronics, Engineering, Hydrogel, Light, Materials, New Jersey, NJ, Octopus, RU, Rutgers, Rutgers University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Shapes, skin, soft robotics, Tech, Technology

Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to light, becomes “artificial muscle” and may lead to new military camouflage, soft robotics and flexible displays. The engineers also developed a 3D-printed stretchy material that can reveal colors when light changes, according to their study in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

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The Mass of Human-Made Materials Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass, Weizmann Institute Finds

December 16, 2020 sarah Jonas anthropocene, Biomass, Materials, Milo

The Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Ron Milo has shown that the mass of materials humans produce is now equal to that of all living things on Earth – and we’re doubling that rate every 20 years. He warns that we are at the crossover point and must all “take responsibility.”

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Swirl power: how gentle body movement will charge your mobile phone

November 6, 2020 sarah Jonas CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS/MATERIALS SCIENCES, Exercise, Materials, POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Researchers have found a way to produce nylon fibres that are smart enough to produce electricity from simple body movement, paving the way for smart clothes that will monitor our health through miniaturised sensors and charge our devices without any external power source.

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Story Tips: Ice breaker data, bacterial breakdown, catching heat and finding order

November 5, 2020 sarah Jonas Bacteria, Cell Membrane, Energy, Lithium-ion batteries, Materials, Mosaic, Pathogens, Supercomputing

ORNL story tips: Ice breaker data, bacterial breakdown, catching heat and finding order

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Smart tablecloth can find fruit and help with watering the plants

October 30, 2020 sarah Jonas ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING/ELECTRONICS, Materials, MULTIMEDIA/NETWORKING/INTERFACE DESIGN, ROBOTRY/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Software Engineering, TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING/COMPUTER SCIENCE

Researchers have designed a smart fabric that can detect non-metallic objects ranging from avocadoes to credit cards, according to a study from Dartmouth College and Microsoft Research.

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Do the twist: Making two-dimensional quantum materials using curved surfaces

October 22, 2020 sarah Jonas Atoms, Chemistry, Materials, nanotechnology

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have discovered a way to control the growth of twisting, microscopic spirals of materials just one atom thick. The continuously twisting stacks of two-dimensional materials built by a team led by UW–Madison chemistry Professor Song Jin create new properties that scientists can exploit to study quantum physics on the nanoscale.

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Q&A: How machine learning helps scientists hunt for particles, wrangle floppy proteins and speed discovery

September 30, 2020 sarah Jonas AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Materials, mL, Neutrinos, particle accelerators, Particle Physics, Slac, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, X-ray lasers, X-ray science

At the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, machine learning is opening new avenues to advance the lab’s unique scientific facilities and research.

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First fiber-optic nanotip electron gun enables easier nanoscale research

September 14, 2020 sarah Jonas Bioimaging, Laser, Materials, Microscopy, Quantum, Quantum Information, Sensing

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Nebraska have developed an easier way to generate electrons for nanoscale imaging and sensing, providing a useful new tool for material science, bioimaging and fundamental quantum research.

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Extreme Chemistry of Nuclear Wastes

August 25, 2020 sarah Jonas Chemistry, Materials, Nuclear Materials, Nuclear Waste

The PNNL-led IDREAM Energy Frontier Research Center is exploring complex chemical phenomena to enable innovations in radioactive waste processing.

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Scientists building 3D-printed nuclear reactor core use HFIR to test novel materials

August 25, 2020 sarah Jonas 3d printing, additive manufacturing and design, Materials, Nuclear Reactor, SiC, transformational challenge reactor demonstration program

The Transformational Challenge Reactor will use novel materials. Researchers are testing their performance in a reactor core by irradiating them in the High Flux Isotope Reactor.

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Toward an Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor

August 19, 2020 sarah Jonas accelerator technology, applied physics, Batteries, Capacitors, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, dielectric capacitor, Energy Storage, energy storage solutions, energy storage systems, Ferroelectric, ferroelectric material, Ferroelectrics, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory, Materials, Materials Science, materials science and engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF), personal electronics, Piezoelectric, UC Berkeley, Wearable technologies, Wearable Technology

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have demonstrated that a common material can be processed into a top-performing energy storage material. Their discovery could improve the efficiency, reliability, and robustness of personal electronics, wearable technologies, and car audio systems.

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Quantum Materials Quest Could Benefit From Graphene That Buckles

August 12, 2020 sarah Jonas 2D materials, Building Blocks, Crystals, Devices, Electricity, Electronic Devices, Electronics, Electrons, Energy, Graphene, Graphite, Health, health monitoring devices, Magnetic Fields, Magnetism, Materials, Materials Science, New Jersey, NJ, Physics, Power, Quantum Computers, quantum materials, Research, Robots, Rutgers, Rutgers University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Science, Sensors, Superconductivity, Superconductors, Tech, Technology

Graphene, an extremely thin two-dimensional layer of the graphite used in pencils, buckles when cooled while attached to a flat surface, resulting in beautiful pucker patterns that could benefit the search for novel quantum materials and superconductors, according to Rutgers-led research in the journal Nature. Quantum materials host strongly interacting electrons with special properties, such as entangled trajectories, that could provide building blocks for super-fast quantum computers. They also can become superconductors that could slash energy consumption by making power transmission and electronic devices more efficient.

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