Natural materials have extraordinary mechanical properties, which are based on sophisticated arrangements and combinations of multiple building blocks. One key aspect of today’s materials research ...

Mab Architects have done to brick — the Walter Matthau of building materials — something we never thought possible: They’ve made it look downright radical. As Architizer reports, the Greek architects ...

Researchers looking to craft construction materials that are more environment-friendly have come up with bricks made of mushrooms and windows built with transparent wood. The mushroom bricks are light ...

Structure of the nacre-mimetic material as visualized by electron microscopy. (Image: P. Das, DWI) The structure of nacre resembles a brick wall at the microscopic scale: Calcium carbonate platelets ( ...