More builders and homeowners are looking for ways to reduce the environmental impact of residential construction, and a quickly-emerging way of doing so is by using upcycled materials. Instead of ...

Materials are a necessity for all engineering applications. Materials science and engineering seeks to understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties ...

Wheels have been evolving ever since ancient civilizations started whipping up killer dubs for their wagons. Throughout thousands of years, humans have produced some sweet variants with significantly ...

While nanomaterials are considered materials with at least one dimension less than 100 nanometers, nanoporous materials contain gaps measuring between 1 and 1,000 nanometers. As with nanomaterials, ...

Cotton Fiber: The Essential Textile Raw Material? In recent years, organic textile raw materials have become increasingly popular as a result of increasing consumer knowledge of healthy and safe ...