Hydrogel materials possess intrinsic softness, and exhibit other favorable properties of natural organic parts, like stretchability, biocompatibility, permeability and stimuli-adaptability, owing to ...

Unlike conventional DIW printing, the PNIPAM method doesn't require the use of any post-print chemicals, and it can be conducted at room temperature. As an added bonus, the printed solid objects can ...

Although the components of wood – cellulose and lignin – are exceedingly cheap and plentiful, combining these into a wood-like structure is not straightforward, despite many attempts to make these ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a method of 3D-printing silica suspensions that are subsequently densified into transparent silica glass. Reporting the findings in Advanced Materials ...

Wood is one of humanity’s oldest and most versatile building materials—but turning tree trunks into today’s plywood and two-by-fours generates huge amounts of waste. Each year the U.S. alone produces ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hydrogel materials possess intrinsic softness and they also exhibit other favorable properties that make them a perfect fabrication material for biomimetic soft robots: ...