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Buckle up! A new class of materials is here

Would you rather run into a brick wall or into a mattress? For most people, the choice is not difficult. A brick wall is stiff

Knots Smaller Than Human Hair Make Materials Unusually Tough

In the latest advance in nano- and micro-architected materials, engineers at Caltech have developed a new material made from numerous interconnected microscale knots. The knots

CityU develops two novel hydrogen production catalysts based on mineral gel and “crystalline-amorphous” dual-phase nano-aluminium alloy

Prof Lu Jian, Dr Li Yangyang and the team developed a electrocatalyst which is based on two-dimensional mineral gel nanosheets for hydrogen production. Clean hydrogen

Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”

The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals without bulky chips or batteries. Credits:Courtesy of the researchers Wearable sensors are ubiquitous thanks to wireless technology that

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Buckle up! A new class of materials is here

Knots Smaller Than Human Hair Make Materials Unusually Tough

CityU develops two novel hydrogen production catalysts based on mineral gel and “crystalline-amorphous” dual-phase nano-aluminium alloy

Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”