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Nanoemulsion gels offer new way to deliver drugs through the skin
MIT chemical engineers have devised a new way to create very tiny droplets of one liquid suspended within another liquid, known as...
Jun 22, 20194 min read


Jumping drops get boost from gravity
A decade ago a new idea was brought into the general scientific community - shedding water from condensers was more efficient by using...
May 30, 20192 min read


Imperfection is OK for better MOFs
Perfect crystals are not necessarily the most useful. Defects in the ordered crystalline structure of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)...
May 27, 20192 min read


Research details sticky situations at the nanoscale
Brown University researchers have made a discovery about the way things stick together at tiny scales that could be helpful in...
Feb 7, 20194 min read


A reconfigurable soft actuator
Mechanical systems, such as engines and motors, rely on two principal types of motions of stiff components: linear motion, which involves...
Feb 5, 20192 min read


Putting that free energy around you to good use with minuscule energy harvesters
Tokyo Tech scientists developed a micro-electromechanical energy harvester that allows for more flexibility in design, which is crucial...
Jan 28, 20192 min read
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