Researchers have engineered string-like resonators capable of vibrating longer at ambient temperature than any previously known solid-state object. Their study pushes the edge of nanotechnology and machine learning to make some of the world's most sensitive mechanical sensors.
Physicists have developed design rules that take advantage of topological defects to control self-sustained chaotic flows in active fluids. This framework, for now developed as a theoretical model, provides a path for the engineering of self-powered fluids with tunable flows.
: Scientists have developed a highly deformable, adhesive electronic hydrogel inspired by amoebas that could enable customizable epidermal electronics.
Researchers describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth - a process that may aid the manufacturing of cheap flexible electronics an everyday reality.
