Civil Engineering News

With this kind of printer, everyone could produce small, tailor-made 3-D objects at home, using building plans from the internet -- and this could save money for expensive custom-built spare parts

A team of researchers at MIT has found a way to manipulate both the thermal conductivity and the electrical conductivity of materials simply by changing the external conditions

Invisibility cloaks are seemingly futuristic devices capable of concealing very small objects by bending and channeling light around them

Chlorine is an abundant and readily available halogen gas commonly associated with the sanitation of swimming pools and drinking water. Could a one-atom thick sheet of this element revolutionize the next generation of flat-panel displays?

A very simple bench-top technique that uses the force of acoustical waves to create a variety of 3D structures will benefit the rapidly expanding field of metamaterials and their myriad applications -- including "invisibility cloaks."

Innovation could eliminate, once and for all, the fog on eyeglasses, windshields, goggles, camera lenses, and on any transparent glass or plastic surface.

Researchers have solved a long-standing problem in the design of mechanical resonators: the numerical prediction of the design-limited damping.

Most people cross borders such as state lines without thinking much about it. Yet not all borders are places of limbo intended only for crossing

A new way of splitting layered materials, similar to graphite, into sheets of material just one atom thick could lead to revolutionary new electronic and energy storage technologies.

Researchers are developing a new class of "plasmonic metamaterials" as potential building blocks for advanced optical technologies, including ultrapowerful microscopes and computers, improved solar cells, and a possible invisibility cloak.