Using an off-the-shelf inkjet printer, a team of scientists has developed a simple technique for printing patterns of carbon nanotubes on paper and plastic surfaces. The method, which is described in ...

As the ink quickly solidifies, those linked molecules form into butterfly-wing-like nanostructures on the material's surface. By synchronizing factors such as extrusion speed, print head motion, and ...

When Benjamin in "The Graduate" was told to go into plastics, computers were in their infancy and silicon technology ruled. Now, conducting organic polymers are infiltrating the electronics ...

Israeli designers Idan Noyberg and Gal Bulka have replaced sewing-machine needles with stamps that print lines of patterns onto fabric. Noyberg & Bulka designed the Sew-ink stamps as a way of ...

Inspired by chameleons and other colorful animals, researchers at the the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed a way to 3D ...