(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic devices that monitor vital signs often fail when stretched or twisted, limiting their use in medical monitoring. Rigid circuit boards crack, flexible materials degrade, ...

Nanjing University of Science and Technology in collaboration with Liaoning Academy of Materials, Hohai University and City University of Hong Kong revealed a significant strengthening mechanism ...

Scientists from Skoltech and their colleagues have used a 3D printer to fuse two materials in an alloy whose composition continuously changes from one region of the sample to the other, endowing the ...

Chemists have studied an elusive property in cathode materials, called a valence gradient, to understand its effect on battery performance. The findings demonstrated that the valence gradient can ...

Functionally gradient materials (FGMs) are an innovative class of materials composed of two or more constituent phases with a continuously variable directional composition. This unique structure ...

How additive manufacturing advanced the development of functionally graded materials. Why compositionally graded materials present a greater challenge to materials engineers. How computational ...

TOTAL30 delivers the only Water Gradient, reusable lens that is clinically shown to feel like nothing, even on day 30 1 The first breakthrough innovation in the $4 billion reusable lens segment in ...