Read article: Room-temperature cycling cools down strengthening in aluminium alloys
Researchers discover a low-temperature method that could replace century-old high-temperature strengthening techniques
Read article: Broken shoes and tyres could be history thanks to new materials that repair themselves
Novel elastomer that rapidly self-heals can be quickly printed in 3D
Read article: Atom-by-atom diffusion offers simple route to longer and thinner nanowires
A single-step moulding technique makes it much easier to fabricate long and thin nanowires from crystalline metals
Read article: Imploding hydrogel shrinks objects to the nanoscale
New nanofabrication technique can print 3D objects of nearly any shape and might be used to make novel optical metamaterials and electronics devices
Read article: Machine learning without understanding improves femtosecond laser patterning
A trained neural network can learn what parameters specific femtosecond laser patterned surfaces require with no input about the physics
Read article: Ambient amides take nitrogen chemistry beyond Haber–Bosch
Catalysts that can break the super-strong nitrogen bond under ambient conditions provide an uncontroversial success story for nitrogen chemists
Read article: Transparent graphene could advance non-silicon electronics
New “remote epitaxy” technique improves semiconducting thin film growth
Read article: Polymer LEDs go nano
A recently developed adhesion lithography technique brings greater versatility fabrication nanoscale optoelectronic devices
Read article: High-resolution direct laser writing exploits scruffy edges
By controlling stray filament formation researchers achieve sub 10 nm feature sizes with standard direct laser writing tools
Read article: A smart approach to smart packaging
Flexible, low-cost integrated circuits could transform the market for "Internet of things" devices and packaging on consumer goods
