Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have been useful in a variety of applications, as actuators that can control the ...

Every industrial material has a moment of creation. Steel is poured during the heat stage. Plastics are blended as resin. Fibers are extruded. Metals are refined and purified. These are controlled, ...

Scientists develop the next generation of highly efficient memory materials with atom-level control. Like the flutter of a butterfly's wings, sometimes small and minute changes can lead to big and ...

Researchers at EPFL have discovered a material that seems to be able to “remember” all of its past encounters with stimuli, such as electrical currents. The compound could come in handy for better ...

Twisted graphene stores memory by combining strain-induced hysteresis and nonlinear response, enabling reprogrammable, low power memory in a pure carbon system. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic memory ...

A research team has demonstrated that thin films of ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂) exhibit altermagnetism—the defining property of ...

New research from the University of Pennsylvania published in Nature Physics details the relationship between a disordered material’s individual particle arrangement and how it reacts to external ...

Engineers have created shape-memory materials made of ceramic rather than of traditional metal. The development opens a new range of applications, especially for actuators in high-temperature settings ...