More information: Weiling Dong et al, Tunable Mid-Infrared Phase-Change Metasurface, Advanced Optical Materials (2018). DOI: 10.1002/adom.201701346 ...

Conventional mechanical testing provides bulk material properties, effectively averaging out the behavior of microscopic features like individual grains, interfaces, and phase boundaries ... behavior ...

Phase-change materials (PCMs) show promise for this, and now engineers at Texas A&M have developed a new PCM composite that can be 3D printed. The name “phase-change materials” is pretty self ...

The technology to rewrite data on compact disks was made possible by phase-change materials altered by the light and heat of lasers, though this had ... Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are ...

New material offers more durable, sustainable multi-level non-volatile phase change memory. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 09 / 230906112424.htm ...

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter ... in which slices in the material enable it to fold, expand and locomote. The team's paper, "Electronically Configurable ...

Now, Caltech engineers have developed a new material consisting of microscale knots, and shown that it’s far tougher than a version of the material made of the same stuff without knots.

and the Singapore Sinchrotron Light Source (SSLS), have demonstrated that tuneable phase change materials, which are more typically found in data storage devices, can be used to tune the response of ...