Bend them, stretch them, twist them, fold them: modern materials that are light, flexible and highly conductive have extraordinary technological potential, whether as artificial skin or electronic ...

Is your laptop or phone overheating? Newly engineered plastic could lead to self-cooling casings for common electronics. Plastics are excellent insulators, meaning they can efficiently trap heat -- a ...

A new ion superhighway modeled after human cells could speed our batteries way up. Digging out a nanochannel for charged ions turned a “rat’s nest” into a superfast conductor. These materials were ...