Scientists have been relentlessly working on understanding the fundamental mechanisms at the base of high-temperature superconductivity with the ultimate goal to design and engineer new quantum materials superconducting close to room temperature.
Physicists have discovered that electrons in a crystal form counter-intuitive quantum links that are knotted. In explaining these phenomena, researchers turned to knot theory, a branch of mathematics that studies the complex world of knots and loops. This is the first time that knot theory has been used to understand materials called topological magnets.
3D printing with stimuli-responsive materials is called 4D printing. 4D printing enables 3D printed structures to change its configurations over time and is used in a wide variety of fields such as soft robotics, flexible electronics, and medical devices. The development of a water-responsive cholesteric liquid crystal ink and the accompanying direct ink writing (DIW) procedure is extending 4D printing to structurally colored inks. This is the first demonstration of a humidity-responsive ...
Scientists have developed a new manufacturing routine and application of binary amplitude-only holograms. The proposed direct drug printing (DDP) technique works with water-soluble substances, but can be adapted to other types of drugs.
