Tiny molecules that can think, remember, and learn may be the missing link between electronics and the brain. For more than ...

Purdue University civil engineers have developed innovative materials that can dissipate energy caused by bending, compression, torque, and tensile stresses without sustaining permanent damage. These ...

Researchers from China University of Petroleum (East China), in collaboration with international partners, have reported a ...

A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By integrating "shear-jamming transitions" into compliant polymeric solids, this ...

In testing, the mats were capable of withstanding over 5,000 landing and takeoff cycles over a 60-day period while showing no signs of failure. (Photo courtesy of Purdue University) Purdue University ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the National University of Singapore have created a new class of intelligent materials. It has the structure of a two-dimensional material, but behaves like an ...

(Nanowerk News) Wearable medical devices, such as the soft exoskeletons that provide support for stroke patients or controlled drug delivery patches, have to be made of materials that can adapt ...

As technology evolves, so must the materials that comprise it. There is an unceasing quest to create new forms of intelligent, active matter that can create its own energy, sense, compute, and ...

Pablo Zavattieri, the Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt professor in civil engineering, lifts an aircraft runway mat made with new intelligent architected materials developed at Purdue University ...

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

Researchers have created a new class of intelligent materials. It has the structure of a two-dimensional (2D) material, but behaves like an electrolyte - and could be a new way to deliver drugs within ...