Engineered Living Materials

Picture this possible future: Instead of plastic bottles from oil or concrete made from sand, what if everyday things were grown from living organisms? That’s the incredible promise of engineered living materials. Learn about how we could replace the unsustainable items we rely on and turn instead to the amazing abilities of nature. Courtesy of […]

Spontaneous supercrystal discovered in switching metal-insulator

A Cornell-led research team has discovered a previously unobserved supercrystal formation in a metal-insulating material, potentially unlocking new ways to engineer materials and devices with tunable electronic properties. They demonstrated that the atomic structure in the thin-film Mott insulator Ca2RuO4, which can switch between being a metal and an insulator due to quantum effects, forms […]