This review examines how the rheology, surface oxidation, and interfacial properties of liquid metals shape their printability and performance in stretchable electronics. The authors show how advances in material formulation and 2D-to-4D printing are enabling highly conductive, deformable devices, while identifying scalability, encapsulation, recyclability, and reliable integration as key barriers to practical use.
By Muhammad Osama
7 Sep 2026
Metrohm introduces OMNIS IC, the next-generation ion chromatography system designed to combine maximum flexibility, automation, and reliability on a single analytical platform.
Future lunar bases will depend on materials that can withstand radiation, extreme temperatures, vacuum, and abrasive dust while supporting power generation, storage, and transmission at increasingly large scales. The review highlights how radiation-tolerant photovoltaics, regolith-based thermal storage, lunar-derived conductors and other ISRU-compatible materials could reduce launch mass and help enable more resilient lunar energy infrastructure.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
4 Sep 2026
Researchers engineered a living Citrobacter sp. MICI21 biofilm on copper that outcompeted the corrosive sulfate-reducing bacterium Oleidesulfovibrio alaskensis G20 and formed a dense, mechanically cohesive barrier. The MICI21-dominated biofilm limited sulfide ingress and pitting and produced substantially greater corrosion resistance, supporting microbiome engineering as a potential strategy for living, adaptive coatings.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
3 Sep 2026
Australian engineers have created a strong and lightweight titanium material that floats in water, even after severe damage, revealing a promising new material for marine infrastructure.
Bruker today announced the launch of the XFlash® 7200 FIRE, the world’s first inclined large-area Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) detector for Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) built on Bruker’s revolutionary four-segment Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) architecture.
The U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory is building on more than 40-years of leadership in metal powder synthesis and metallurgy with a new refractory metal powder atomization system that will help researchers develop materials for extreme environment applications.
Forum Rathenau and Citrine Informatics collaborate on Scale New Chemistry, a bootcamp transforming industrial challenges into scalable chemical solutions.
“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris,” aviation pioneer Orville Wright once said. What even the visionary Wright brothers considered impossible is now a reality – thanks in part to new materials that make modern aircraft and engines possible in the first place.
Bruker today announced the launch of two groundbreaking detectors at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2026: the eWARP™ TKD, a next-generation Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD) detector for nanoscale crystallographic characterization, and the XFlash® FlatQUAD™ 2L, the latest evolution of Bruker’s annular EDS detector, enabling simultaneous Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Back-Scattered Electron (BSE) detection.
A UK startup that has found a novel way to make advanced heat-resistant materials is targeting further expansion in the US with the launch of an office in Silicon Valley.
SteelX Solar Power, will commence offering lightweight, integrated solar roofing solutions to the North American market in partnership with Swedish developer and manufacturer of thin film solar cells and panels Midsummer.
Metrohm USA has launched OMNIS IC, an ion chromatography system that automates much of the manual preparation and routine monitoring involved in daily analysis.
This perspective paper examines whether asteroids could become future sources of rare earth elements, platinum group metals, and other strategic materials, while positioning the Moon as a nearer-term testbed for in-situ resource utilization technologies. The authors conclude that lunar processing is considerably more technologically mature than asteroid mining, which remains largely conceptual and will require major advances in autonomous processing, transport, governance, sustainability assessment, and techno-economic analysis.
By Muhammad Osama
2 Sep 2026
This collaboration delivers a user-friendly water testing solution, combining METTLER TOLEDO's spectrophotometer with MACHEREY-NAGEL's high-quality test kits.