Purdue University researchers have developed a process to use magnetics with brain-like networks to program and teach devices to better …
Chemical engineers replicate feed, fight and flight responses in catalytic chemical reactions
The enzyme-coated sheet generates an inward flow which pulls in fleeing, self-propelled particles (yellow spheres). Within the sheet or crab, …
Engineers make injectable tissues a reality
Doctoral student Mohamed Gamal uses a newly developed cell encapsulation device. “The idea of injecting different kinds of tissue cells …
No assembly required: Researchers automate microrobotic designs
MASc student Tianqi Xu holds up a microrobot that was fabricated using their automated system. In the lab of Professor …
An army of micro-robots can wipe out dental plaque
With a precise, controlled movement, microrobots cleared a glass plate of a biofilm, as shown in this time-lapse image. A …
Artificial mother-of-pearl created using bacteria
This abalone shell is a natural form of nacre — also known as mother-of-pearl — an exceptionally tough material found …
Engineers demonstrate ‘bubbles’ of sand
Development of a “bubble” of lighter sand (blue) forming in heavier sand (white). Now, a recent discovery by Chris Boyce, …
Atomic beams shoot straighter via cascading silicon peashooters
The collimator next to a penny. The tiny slit on the side contains the more than a dozen channels the …
‘Deep learning’ casts wide net for novel 2D materials
Rice University researchers used a microstructure model of radiation-damaged hexagonal boron nitride to help them study the benefits of deep …
Wonder material: Individual 2D phosphorene nanoribbons made for the first time
Individual phosphorene nanoribbons. Since the isolation of 2-dimensional phosphorene, which is the phosphorus equivalent of graphene, in 2014, more than …