US researchers have developed Enzymatic Structural Material (ESM), a carbon-negative alternative to concrete that ...

Researchers have developed a new carbon-negative building material that could reshape approaches to sustainable construction.

Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress concentration factors that limit their applications. Researchers have now found a ...

Load-bearing masonry isn’t exactly novel—stereotomic construction spans continents, cultures, and epochs. Despite stone’s ubiquity—throughout history and as a resource—steel and reinforced concrete ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The ability to control a material's properties at the nanoscale underlies many remarkable structures in nature. Seashells achieve their strength through precise arrangements of ...

A newly designed robust mechanophore provides early warning against mechanical failure while resisting heat and UV, report ...

A NIMS research team has developed an automated high-throughput system capable of generating datasets from a single sample of a superalloy used in aircraft engines. The system successfully produced an ...

Thought LeadersProf. Bo ChenProfessor in MaterialsUniversity of Southampton Prof. Bo Chen, a Professor in Materials at the University of Southampton, UK, focuses on the structural integrity and ...

The study shows that DAANAC exhibits strong thermal and photochemical stability yet remains highly responsive to mechanical ...