Magnetic graphene oxide sheets fold, move, sense motion, and switch function by swapping magnetic layers, offering a fast, reprogrammable platform for soft robots and other morphable structures.

Cement infused with carbon and hydrogel can store electrical energy while remaining strong enough for construction, suggesting a future where buildings contribute directly to energy storage.

A sunlight-powered reactor turns ordinary sewage into hydrogen fuel while cleaning the water, showing how simple materials ...

An elastic metamaterial can do math by directing motion through tiny pathways, showing how materials might one day handle simple computing tasks without electronics.

An artificial intelligence model predicts how brain immune cells react to RNA and DNA nanoparticles, helping scientists design safer and more effective nucleic acid therapies faster.

When a metal-organic framework melts into glass, it becomes magnetic at room temperature, showing that atomic disorder can ...

A new roadmap links materials, design, and process to build stretchable synaptic transistors for soft, low-power AI and ...

Physicists found bizarre metal-like behavior in an insulator at extreme magnetic fields, revealing quantum oscillations deep ...

A promising strategy for making such flexible conductors is to use a self-healing polymer as a flexible base and incorporate ...

Magnetic microrobots carry medicine through blood and release it only where needed, while being tracked inside the body using ...

Liquid metal embedded with dormant bacterial spores forms a living conductor that heals itself, resists oxidation, and boosts ...

Researchers uncovered a crucial mechanism that reveals how electrons and atoms interact to create a new quasiparticle and ...