A team of polymer science and engineering researchers has demonstrated for the first time that the positions of tiny, flat, solid objects integrated in nanometrically thin membranes - resembling those ...
A research team from New Jersey Institute of Technology is uncovering mysteries surrounding fluids in nanoporous materials, and has been recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation ...
Gennady Gor (back left) and Alexei Khalizov (back right) with Ph.D. student Günel Nabiyeva (left) and postdoctoral researcher Ashoka Karunarathne (right). A research team from New Jersey Institute of ...
What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical ...
Researchers model interactions between unique fluids and tiny structures. Specialized stringy fluids flow through the human joints and help constitute substances such as mucus. These fluids contain ...
Lead author Dr. Shubhadeep Mandal, of the Indian Institute of Science, said, "This research examines how key properties of complex fluids, such as anisotropy and elasticity, affect the motion of ...
PHILADELPHIA — A biomechanical experiment conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has answered a long-standing theoretical question: Will microorganisms ...
To figure out how they slither through substances that should, in theory, resist their movement, a team led by Kenta Ishimoto ...