From soft to solid: How a coral stiffens its skeleton on demand
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A team of UC Riverside engineering scholars have discovered why a key solid-state battery ceramic material stays remarkably cool during operation — a breakthrough that could help make the next generation of lithium batteries deliver higher energy density while reducing overheating and fire risks.
Researchers at the UW have created a recyclable, flexible and self-healing composite material that could replace traditional circuit boards in future generations of wearable electronics.
Inspired by an artist’s stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, allowing them to “paint” gold nanoparticles with polymers to give them an array of new shapes and functions. The “patchy nanoparticles” developed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers and collaborators at the University of Michigan and Penn State University can be made in large batches, used for a variety of electronic, optical or biomedical applications, or used as building blocks for new complex materials and metamaterials.