Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and emerging viruses are a rapidly increasing threat to the global health care system. About 5 million deaths each year are linked to antibiotic-resistant germs, and more ...

Scientists have developed a smart, reusable adhesive more than ten times stronger than a gecko's feet adhesion, pointing the way for development of reusable superglue and grippers capable of holding ...

Researchers at Penn State have developed a fabrication method that can print multifunctional “smart synthetic skin” — ...

Advances in materials science have led to the development of "smart materials," whose properties do not remain static but change in response to external stimuli. One such material is ...

From ultra-sensitive sensors to shape-shifting implants, stimuli-responsive smart materials react reversibly to heat, light, stress, or pH. They could transform devices and therapies once issues in ...

Plastics, which are polymeric materials composed of long chains of small molecules called monomers, are widely used in everyday life and industry due to their lightweight, good strength and ...

Andrés Jonathan Guízar Dena participates as a researcher in the Exploit4InnoMat project, funded by the European Union. Within the project, he provides advisory and product characterisation services ...

Rewritable smart materials and colour switching technologies represent a burgeoning field at the interface of chemistry, materials science and engineering. These systems offer a sustainable ...

Access to safe, clean water varies across the globe. Vital to life, this is a problem scientists are trying to fix. Researchers have been turning to smart materials for a solution, engineered ...