Imagine a "smart fluid" whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study published in Matter, researchers report a way to overcome a long-standing limitation in ...

Abraham “Bramie” Lenhoff, the Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been ...

Scientists have developed a new approach to formulating mineral sunscreen that could prevent it from leaving a white cast on ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated chemistry as the master key to building new materials, tuning bonds and charges to coax atoms into useful patterns. A new wave of research is quietly ...

Particle size and shape influence virtually every aspect of mining operations – from the transport and deposition of ...

Utrecht University researchers Rodolfo Subert and Marjolein Dijkstra show in their latest study that complex ...

Scientists have long known that injecting a large quantity of reflective particles into the upper atmosphere could cool the planet - Copyright NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ...

Nanotechnology could be a new solution in art restoration, using nanoparticles for effective cleaning and stabilization with ...

In a new study, Northwestern engineers discovered that groups of tiny particles suspended in liquid oscillate together, keeping time as though they somehow sense one another's motion. The team used a ...

Polymer micelles are tiny, self-assembled particles that are revolutionizing the landscape of drug delivery and nanomedicine.