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Researchers have developed a novel, highly compact electro-optical modulator that converts electrical signals into light pulses for ultra-fast and efficient data transmission across fiber-optic networks.
#Microtechnology #Technology #MaterialScience #Photonics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/mtec03182601.html

Stable, Fast, Mass-producible: Breakthrough in Light-based Data Connections

New Technology Facilitates Manufacture of Optical Microchips for Efficient Data Transmission

Scientific Frontline 21h ago

A supersolid is an exotic #quantum state of matter that simultaneously exhibits the ordered, crystal-like spatial structure of a solid and the frictionless flow of a superfluid. Researchers have successfully generated this state at room temperature by engineering light-matter interactions within a nanoscale device.
#QuantumScience #MaterialScience #Nanotechnology #Photonics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/qs03172601.html

Scientists Create a New State of Matter at Room Temperature Using Light and Nanostructures

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter

Scientific Frontline 1d ago

Researchers have developed a novel material design that enables #superconductivity to operate at significantly higher temperatures while remaining resilient against strong magnetic fields by physically altering the surface on which the superconducting material rests.
#MaterialScience #QuantumScience #Physics #Nanotechnology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03172602.html

Superconductor advance could unlock ultra-energy-efficient electronics

Superconducting materials could play a crucial role in energy-efficient applications of the future.

Scientific Frontline 1d ago

A novel light-activated material that utilizes sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into carbon monoxide (CO), a crucial chemical building block.
#MaterialScience #Chemistry #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03172601.html

Light-activated material offers new approach to carbon dioxide conversion

Scientists have developed a new material that can use sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide

Scientific Frontline 2d ago

Researchers have developed an upgraded, battery-free smart mask named EBClite capable of continuously and noninvasively monitoring biomarkers, such as lactate, from exhaled breath condensate over extended periods.
#Engineering #MaterialScience #Biochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/eng03162601.html

Extracting More Information from Exhaled Breath

The smart mask is a low-cost way of providing continuous health care monitoring

Scientific Frontline 4d ago

A novel stem cell therapy that integrates biodegradable #nanogel microfibers into three-dimensional cell clusters (#spheroids ) to enhance stem cell survival, oxygen diffusion, and functional regeneration of injured swallowing muscles.
#Bioengineering #MaterialScience #CellBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/beng03142601.html

Giving stem cells room to breathe

Stem cell therapy is considered a promising strategy for muscle repair

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Spaceflight 🚀5d ago

T1200-grade fibre has a tensile strength 💪 10 times greater than ordinary steel, yet it is less than one-tenth of a human hair in diameter. Using 120,000 carbon-fibre filaments twisted together, the carbon-fibre rope has a diameter of under 2mm when taut. It is strong enough to tow a coach 🚍 loaded with 54 adults https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3346398/china-beats-us-japan-carbon-fibre-arms-race-create-worlds-first-t1200-factory

#SpaceElevator #MaterialScience

China beats US, Japan in carbon-fibre arms race with world’s first T1200 factory

‘Black gold’ fibre deemed transformative for energy and military purposes, EV innovations, medical devices and low-altitude economy.

South China Morning Post

Harald Sack Mar 11

On my way to Siegburg to the #NFDIMatWerk All-hands-on-deck meeting 2026. Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi, @enorouzi and @heikef from our @fizise research group will present results regarding the MatWerk ontology, the MatWerk Knowledge Graph and our curation Infrastructure

@fiz_karlsruhe @joerg #KnowledgeGraphs #ontologies #materialscience #nfdi @NFDI #rdm #infrastructure #ai

Scientific Frontline Mar 10

Chromium oxychloride (CrOCl) is an atomically thin, two-dimensional metal oxyhalide material that functions as an ultra-durable hard mask for patterning nanoscale structures during computer chip manufacturing.
#MaterialScience #Semiconductor #Technology #Engineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03102602.html

Atom-thin material could help solve chip manufacturing problem

Scientific Frontline Mar 10

The soft fiber actuator is an ultrafine, electrically driven "soft yarn" made from flexible polymer capable of bending, contracting, and producing complex three-dimensional movements upon the application of an electrical voltage.
#MaterialScience #SoftRobotics #BiomedicalEngineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03102601.html

Soft Fibers that Move with Electricity

Soft actuators - materials that convert electrical energy into motion