HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) - What appears to be an impossibly complicated maze is actually quite simple. Two complicated mazes, intertwined but not touching, tell a different story. Now imagine them on ...

Metamaterials are synthetic materials tailored with unusual properties that are not found in nature. It has now been predicted that they could be engineered with negative refractive index through the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In the quest to create materials that are both lightweight and strong, scientists have long been inspired by the intricate structures found in nature. From the lattice-like bones ...

Now imagine them on the nanoscale and made of soft crystals. Materials scientist Ned Thomas of Rice University's Brown School of Engineering has done more than imagine them -- he and his lab have made ...

Polymer scientists recently announced that they have solved a longstanding mystery surrounding a nanoscale structure, formed by collections of molecules, called a double-gyroid. This shape is one of ...

Hydrogen bonding significantly influences the self-assembly and phase behaviour of block copolymer systems. By introducing specific functional groups capable of forming intermolecular hydrogen bonds, ...

Engineers analyze soft double gyroids and find their crystalline forms are not perfect. Gyroids interact with light and sound waves and promise nanoscale materials with novel properties. What appears ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the journal Nature Communications that they have solved a longstanding mystery surrounding a ...