Water droplets can slide down or bounce off a leaf's surface because it has a waxy hydrophobic (water-repellent) coating.

Bengaluru: When farmers spray pesticides on crops, much of it never sticks to the leaves. Because most plants have waxy and ...

Rutvik is part of a team led by Prosenjit Sen, Associate Professor at CeNSE, which has come up with an ingenious way to tackle this problem. The new approach uses Liquid Marbles (LMs) and is a safer ...

GURIT HOLDING AG — The composite materials manufacturer in Zürich, Switzerland, named Viktor Bernhardt chief financial ...

Seven University of Cambridge researchers have been awarded Synergy Grants from the European Research Council to lead five ...

Seven researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Synergy Grants from the European Research Council to lead five new collaborative ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and other leading institutions just unveiled an artificial leaf. This ...

Whether natural or synthetic, polymers — large molecules made up of repeating units called monomers — exhibit complex ...

Liheng Cai’s lab aims to understand and control the interactions between adaptive soft materials and living systems to solve ...

A new type of "ink" makes it possible to 3D print electrochemically switchable, conducting polymers using a light-based ...

Researchers probe charged polymer droplets to reveal how their nanoscale behavior could shape future drug delivery and ...

Mechanoluminescent (ML) materials are attractive for haptic interface sensors for next-generation technologies, including ...