Materials Innovation and Learning Laboratory at Georgia Tech

The Materials Innovation and Learning Laboratory (The MILL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), is a student-led, open-access “make-and-measure” space for creating materials, characterizing their structure, and measuring their properties. The MILL not only empowers students to create but to analyze and evaluate their creations, and this emphasis on analytical assessment in a […]

Scientists develop inexpensive, high-quality lenses for super-resolution microscopy

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, U.K., have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical components that enable super-resolution imaging, with each lens costing less than $1 to produce. The new fabrication approach could broaden access to fully customizable optical parts and enable completely new types of imaging tools.

Novel metamaterial can potentially revolutionize implantable and ingestible devices

Rice University researchers create a novel “metamaterial” that can potentially revolutionize implantable and ingestible devices. The team, led by Yong Lin Kong, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform […]