On the top floor of the University of Texas at Austin’s engineering building, students occasionally scribble notes as they quietly conduct experiments amid rows of cabinets packed with neatly labeled ...

Electrically tunable ionic hydrogels use small voltages to switch friction at metal contacts between high-friction and ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a water harvesting gel capable of pulling buckets of water out of thin air. What makes this gel so intriguing, and possibly revolutionary, ...

What if a doctor could inject an electricity-conducting liquid into the body, let it temporarily solidify to record nerve ...

Water scarcity is a major problem for much of the world’s population, but with the right equipment drinking water can be wrung out of thin air. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have ...

(Nanowerk News) More than a third of the world’s population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have ...

A hydrogel can cool off electronics and generate electricity from their waste heat. Scale bar, 2 cm. Courtesy: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00800 A new thermogalvanic ...

Researchers developed a low-cost gel film made of abundant materials that can pull drinkable water from the air in even the driest climates. More than a third of the world's population lives in ...