(Nanowerk News) Today's electronic devices strive for new form factors - to make them foldable, stretchable, and deformable. To produce such devices that are highly stretchable or deformable, it is ...

After over a decade in business, a Fox Chapel-based ink tech and e-textile company is looking forward to growth after its latest raise. Liquid X manufactures particle-free metallic inks. The company ...

The ability to 3-D print liquid inks and soft materials—such as polymers, colloidal solutions, and even living cells—is useful for tissue engineering, prosthetics, and medical applications. A new oil ...

In nature, iridescent materials, which exhibit a color change when viewed from different angles, can be found in butterfly wings and in nacre (or mother of pearl) in the inner shell of mollusks. A man ...