A group of researchers from China’s Shandong University and Xi’an Jiaotong University has developed a radiative cooling (RC) cover for PV panels that can reportedly reduce their operating temperature ...

The study, published in Advanced Functional Materials, offers new insights into the mechanics of PDMS surfaces, opening up greater potential for its practical application in environmental monitoring ...

A simple, cheap, and highly effective approach to achieve large tuning range of optical transmittance through harnessing surface wrinkling–cracking patterns on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) films. The ...

A researcher has applied a novel method to control the wettability of polymeric substrates, which has numerous practical implications. In a paper published in NANO, a researcher from the Department of ...

One of the most exciting areas of integrated circuit research involves the move off brittle silicon wafers and into the wild—smart fabrics, artificial muscles, flexible displays, and other smart ...

Polymer thin films are widely used in a number of processes, including artificial skin and anti-reflective coatings. A knowledge of their viscoelastic features at multiple temperatures is crucial for ...

Researchers have discovered that the primary cause of surface wrinkling in plasma-oxidized PDMS films is water vapor absorption, not thermal cycling as previously believed. This finding is significant ...

In a paper published in NANO, a researcher from the Department of Chemistry at Myongji University has applied a novel method to control the wettability of polymeric substrates, which has numerous ...