Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...

Hotter objects typically glow brighter than cooler ones, making them stand out in infrared images. But a newly designed coating bucks the rule that hotter equals brighter. For certain wavelengths of ...

Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...

Multi-material 3D printing combines the functional properties of different materials (e.g., mechanical, electrical, color) within a single object that is fabricated without manual assembly. However, ...

Materials are a necessity for all engineering applications. Materials science and engineering seeks to understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties ...

When MIT researchers Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng came up with Illusory Material, they took inspiration from two seemingly opposite muses: the natural world and the digital world. In both mediums they ...