Launched this summer, Corning's Willow Glass is an ultra-thin (0.1mm), flexible, roll-processable glass sheet intended for use in next-generation display devices. From an applications point of view, it offers the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday December 10th, 2012 10:32 AM
Categories: Science | 2 Comments
A finger rubbed in superhydrophobic aerogels and submerged in water takes on a decidedly T-1000-esque appearance. And a droplet of water on a piece of paper treated with the same...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday June 8th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Science | 7 Comments
There are so many cool projects out there that use conductive ink, but where to get the ink? Now you can DIY that part, too!
Posted by Willow Brugh | Thursday February 23rd, 2012 2:00 PM
Categories: Craft, Electronics, Science | No Comments
The first time I used ShapeLock was my hotel room at Maker Faire: Bay Area. Ever since then I have been hooked to this wonderful material. But "what is it"...
Posted by Michael Castor | Thursday February 2nd, 2012 8:00 AM
Categories: General, Science | 9 Comments
The folks at Aerogel.org are serious about it: The “Make” section of their exhaustive “open source aerogel” site will teach you how to make high-quality monolithic aerogel the way the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday February 1st, 2012 1:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Science | 3 Comments
You've likely heard about shape-memory alloys (SMAs), metals that change shape when heated to an activation temperature. When cool, they are malleable and can be shaped like a typical metal....
Posted by Jie Qi | Tuesday January 31st, 2012 5:30 PM
Categories: Craft, Electronics | 22 Comments
It’s a simplistic question, possibly even naive. Put it to a chemical engineer or a materials scientist, and she or he will almost certainly not come back with a single...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday January 31st, 2012 1:21 PM
Categories: Science | 12 Comments
Human beings have been smithing silver for millennia. I was surprised to learn, therefore, that significant advances in silver metallurgy have been made as recently as the 1990s. Sterling silver,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday January 30th, 2012 10:18 AM
Categories: Craft, Science, Workshop | 7 Comments
Two years ago I wrote about what a delight it was to discover the UT-Austin School of Architecture’s Materials Lab when I was on campus there, and it seems appropriate...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday January 27th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Education, Hackerspaces, Science | 2 Comments
DIY methods for electroactive polymer actuators are hard to come by, and none of them are kitchen-counter simple. But compared to the wet chemical methods circulating in the academic research...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday January 26th, 2012 1:02 PM
Categories: Electronics, Science | No Comments
HydroSpan 100, from Houston-based Industrial Polymers Corporation, is billed as “a 3 dimensional copy machine enlarging any shape or design in near perfect proportion and detail.” Shown uppermost, a Morgan...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday January 25th, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Science, Tools, Workshop | 3 Comments
As Advanced Materials Month enters its final week, we’re gathering together some of the coolest projects from the dusty archives of MAKE. Next up, projects using electro-luminescent wire! Above, check...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday January 24th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
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