The search for next-generation armor materials has regularly led scientists into the realm of nature, where everything from snail shells to sea sponges have inspired some exciting possibilities.

Shampoo plus conditioner, camera phones, and the spork are all common two-in-one products. In the same spirit of ingenuity, Akif Tezcan and coworkers at the University of California, San Diego, have ...

Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a ...

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used artificial intelligence to analyze protein nanoribbons, pointing to ...

A simple electrical method shows how protein nanowires carry both electrons and ions, offering a clearer way to design soft, tunable materials for body-compatible electronics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

A newly discovered protein could help detect, target, and collect from the environment the rare-earth metals used in smartphones. Two new studies by researchers at Penn State describe the protein, ...

This research is a fundamental discovery of how to engineer proteins onto non-biological surfaces. Artificial proteins engineered from scratch have been assembled into nanorod arrays, designer ...