Micro/Nano Mechanics, Fluidics & Structures

‘Metallic wood’ with titanium strength can be grown at scale

E&T Magazine: Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania have solved a problem which allows a type of material they describe as “metallic wood” – a nickel-based material with a key advantage of natural wood – to be grown to meaningful sizes….

How Animals Color Themselves With Nanoscale Structures

Quanta Magazine: Peacocks, panther chameleons, scarlet macaws, clown fish, toucans, blue-ringed octopuses and so many more: The animal kingdom has countless denizens with extraordinarily colorful beauty. But in many cases, scientists know much more about how the animals use their colors…

The rise of ferrofluids

Chemistry World: Rocket scientists at the Nasa Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, US, were working day and night. It was 1963 and they were testing hundreds of different combustion chamber designs and injectors for liquid hydrogen engines, trying to iron out problems with combustion stability that could thwart efforts to…

Researchers Are Getting Closer to Making Medical Robots That Can Swim In Your Bloodstream

Discover Magazine: It’s often remarked of technological progress that everything keeps getting smaller (with the exception of televisions). Phones, computers, appliances and more have shrunk in size since they were…