It has been 15 years since the discovery of graphene, an ultra-thin sheet of carbon that is thought to be the strongest material on the planet. Although graphene is much stronger than steel, turning ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered new ways to use complex geometry to make strong, lightweight shapes that might be useful as structural materials for airplanes, ...

The latest innovation in manufacturing by 3D Printing has been the creation of light weight, high strength material structures called ‘Gyroids’. Researchers, scientists and engineers at the MIT ...

(a) Comparison of EMW absorption performances of related SiC-based materials; (b) schematic diagram of EMW absorption mechanism for mullite antigyroid/SiC gyroid metastructures. Electromagnetic wave ...

Scientists have devised a way of fabricating a complex structure, previously found only in nature, to open up new ways for manipulating and controlling light. Scientists have devised a way of ...

Better than a butterfly: a new optical metamaterial outperforms the Callophrys rubi. (CC BY-SA Charlesjsharp) An artificial material with the eye-catching optical properties of the Callophrys rubi ...

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a ...