For thousands of years, humans have combined metals to collectively harness properties found in individual components, producing such practical materials as bronze, brass and, more recently, steel.

For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

Varying lattice properties such as element diameter and spacing (A), cross-sectional geometry and arrangement (B), and lattice rotation (C), can affect the stiffness profiles of lattice ...

But the material can be damaged if a compliant region of the blade does the brunt of the cutting. In the razor blades studied by the team, the chances of this occurring depended both on the size of ...

Controlling the shape of 3D microstructures by temperature and light. Nature Communications, 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08175-w ...

Manufactured materials that duplicate the microstructures in Cyphochilus scales could have a variety of uses, Vukusic and his colleagues suggest in the Jan. 19 Science.

Springer. "Stock market microstructures: Modeling could help evaluate financial crises." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 November 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 11 / 171122103559.htm>.

More information: Georg J. Schmitz et al. Towards a metadata scheme for the description of materials – the description of microstructures, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (2016).

Microstructures fold under a beam of light to make useful 3-D devices By Joyce P. Brayboy, U.S. Army Research Laboratory January 3, 2013 1 / 3 Show Caption + (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL ...