What if your house could respond to a rupture in one of its structural beams by simply repairing itself, or bridges could patch up their own cracks the moment they appear? As fanciful as it sounds, ...

Block copolymers have emerged as a highly versatile platform for the design of nanostructured materials. By virtue of their chemically distinct segments, these polymers can self‐assemble into a wide ...

Loren Burnett, the CEO of Prometheus Materials in Longmont, thinks it's time to reconsider the concrete block. His company's proposed alternative is a "bio-cement" first developed at the University of ...