A recent article in Communications Materials proposed a novel approach to enhance the elastic modulus of a cast aluminum alloy by incorporating isostructural Laves phases to form a multi-component, ...

Scientists experimenting with a cutting-edge ultrasound technique have come up with a groundbreaking and incredibly precise way to measure the elasticity of materials at a microscopic scale. Based on ...

As fields ranging from health care to robotics increasingly use flexible materials for electronic devices, Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a thickness-dependent metric that allows ...