Research area
Materials & Engineering
Materials, manufacturing, sensing and engineered systems, including infrastructure technologies.
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Evidence date ·How an absorbent core and its shell work together to manage water
Review or Meta-AnalysisA May 2025 review explains how absorbent cores and tailored shells shape water uptake and release. Pressure, durability and scale still matter.
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Evidence date ·Coiled carbon tubes space MXene sheets into a porous wave absorber
Peer-Reviewed PaperCoiled carbon nanotubes space MXene sheets in a porous aerogel. Its reported effective absorption bandwidth was 6.48 GHz; a separate hollow design reached 13.98 GHz.
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Evidence date ·How layered materials and an eye-inspired design tackle microwave absorption
Peer-Reviewed PaperResearchers report a 5.92 GHz absorption bandwidth for a layered material; the eye-inspired design’s 2.75–18 GHz range comes from simulation.
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Evidence date ·Could a patterned absorber widen this carbon composite’s microwave range?
Peer-Reviewed PaperA graphdiyne–copper oxide specimen had a 6.1 GHz absorption bandwidth. A separate absorber design spanned 34.1 GHz only in simulation.
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Evidence date ·How wearable charge-carrying materials can be designed to stretch and heal
Review or Meta-AnalysisTracked over timeA 2026 review maps chemical design, thin-film geometry, and blending strategies for polymer semiconductors that must stretch, heal, and keep carrying charge.
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Evidence date ·How a soft sensor’s support and coating were designed to heal together
Peer-Reviewed PaperTracked over timeResearchers paired a self-healing polymer with a graphene-based strain-sensing coating, reporting healing-efficiency improvements in both layers.
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Evidence date ·How water-storing gels behave inside cement used for mine backfill
Peer-Reviewed PaperTracked over timeLaboratory tests report lower shrinkage with hydrogels, lower strength with more nanosilica, and different healing rates for samples in water and sand.
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Evidence date ·How water-storing gels change cement as it hardens
Peer-Reviewed PaperTracked over timeA cement-paste study links hydrogel water release to less shrinkage, while voids lower strength and cement chemistry changes absorption.
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Evidence date ·Should crack-repair ingredients go into concrete or onto its surface?
Peer-Reviewed PaperTracked over timeA lab study compared concrete additives and a coating for crack repair, strength and water absorption; it did not establish recovery of lost strength.
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Evidence date ·How cement ingredients change what grows inside a crack
Peer-Reviewed PaperTracked over timeA 2021 cement-paste study collected material from artificial cracks to compare mineral mix, deposit mass and what early healing chemistry can show.