1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (55+ words) Soluble magnesium composites are emerging as one of the most intriguing materials of the decade, promising tools that dissolve on command downhole in oil and gas wells, and implants that quietly disappear inside the human body once their work is…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (56+ words) Piezoelectric polymers have long promised a future in which the flex of a shoe sole, the flutter of a breath, or the vibration of a bridge quietly generates its own electricity, powering sensors and wearables without a single battery swap....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (715+ words) Enzymes are the quiet workhorses of the modern food industry, quietly cleaving sugars, clarifying juices, and softening doughs in plants around the world. Yet they have always carried an awkward industrial weakness: used once, they are typically discarded along with…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (79+ words) A sweeping review published in Discover Electrochemistry has consolidated more than a decade of progress on MXenes, a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides that many researchers now regard as the most versatile nanoarchitecture in modern energy…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (55+ words) Reinforced concrete has carried the modern world on its shoulders, from cross-sea bridges and port terminals to offshore wind platforms, but the ocean is quietly eating away at its skeleton. Chloride-laden seawater penetrates even well-made concrete, triggering rust formation inside…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (652+ words) A new study published in Nature Chemistry reports a chemical strategy that allows commercial polymethacrylates, a widely used family of acrylic plastics, to be broken down back into their original monomers at substantially lower temperatures than previously required....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (55+ words) Researchers in India have found a way to transform ordinary marble dust, a low-value by-product of the stone-cutting industry, into a powerful additive that makes one of the world’s most widely used aluminium alloys significantly stronger and more resistant to…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (742+ words) Every winter, roads ice over, cold chains wobble, and cities dump millions of tonnes of salt and chemical deicers onto pavements that slowly corrode bridges, contaminate groundwater, and damage vehicles....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (560+ words) For decades, the optical world has been ruled by a quiet division of labor. When engineers needed materials that bend light strongly and transmit infrared radiation cleanly, they turned to inorganic compounds: chalcogenide glasses, cadmium sulfide, zinc sulfide, zinc selenide....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (604+ words) The slowest step in the hydrogen economy may just have gotten a serious upgrade....