Materials Science News

Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards.

U.S. troops blew up enemy bridges with explosives in World War II to slow the advance of supplies or enemy forces.

MIT engineers have designed the first simple process for manufacturing materials that strongly repel oils.

A water repellent developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory outperforms nature at its best and could open a floodgate of commercial possibilities.

Scientists at the University of Virginia have discovered a new class of hydrogen storage materials that could make the storage and transportation of energy much more efficient and affordable through higher-performing hydrogen fuel cells.

A tiny "electronic nose" that MIT researchers have engineered with a novel inkjet printing method could be used to detect hazards including carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solvents and explosives.

Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed high-tech battery-powered textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark.

In a feat that seems like something out of a microscopic version of Star Trek, MIT researchers use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other objects on the surface of a microchip.

A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials.

Energy lost from hot engines could save billions of dollars if it could be captured and converted into electricity via thermoelectric devices,