Material could mean ceramic textiles, improved jet engine blades, 3-D printed ceramics, and better batteries

Researchers are investigating the possibility of creating food packaging from cellulose composites

When a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory tried to verify that shrinking nanoparticle size would adversely affect the mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites, they got a big surprise

"Packaging represents about half of all plastics produced, and single-use plastic items make up the majority of what is found on beaches," professor says

Polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), which account for two-thirds of the world’s plastics, have different chemical structures and thus cannot be repurposed together

Process uses household inkjet printer without soldering to create 750 nm-thin elastomeric sheet

Discovery could have major impact on the multi-billion dollar tire industry

"We have achieved 300-nanometer patterns, but we could easily make them as small as several tens of nanometers"

New classes of printable electrically conducting polymer materials make better electrodes for plastic electronics and advanced semiconductor devices

A new project aims to turn shrimp shells, which are a part of Egypt's waste problem into part of the solution