A research team led by Professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki from Saarland University is using a highly versatile film not much thicker than household cling film to impart new capabilities to ...

A research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved a revolutionary breakthrough in smart materials, successfully developing soft magnetorheological textiles that can flexibly ...

A new study in Nature introduces a scalable method for creating magnetorheological fibers and fabrics that actively change shape, stiffness, and motion in response to magnetic fields. This is ...

Researcher Sebastian Gratz-Kelly (photo) shows off a sensor element created from a metal-coated elastomeric film. The touchpad, here mounted on a wristband, can recognize the pressure and direction of ...