Resembling to electrochromic glass (matériO G0426), this dress uses smart e-foils.

The German carmaker Mercedes has created an invisible car by using LEDs (matériO O0832)!

You do not like too much when your host asks you to remove your shoes for fear of displaying your worn or mismatched socks?!

Here is a natural alternative to the Lego bricks: The company Colors Tokyo features a collection of Earth Blocks made from a m

A few months ago, during a training session, matériO was fortunate to welcome Julien

Prashant Kamat, professor of chemistry and biochemistry within the University Notre-Dame, finalized a revolutionary mixture!

Providing the same level of shock absorption than a traditional high-end tire, a tire that is "inflatable", while minimizing its wear and making it puncture-proof: This is the challenge which was l

Voici venu le temps... de la parution de notre programme de formations du premier semestre 2012 !
De multiples modules, des nouveautés... Inscrivez-vous!

Do not miss our selection of materials at ZOOM TOUCH in Batimat's fair! (7-12 November 2011, Hall 7.2)

"To make their device entirely pliable, UCLA researchers devised a novel way of creating a carbon nanotube and polymer electrode and layering it onto a stretchable, light-emitting plastic.

The exhibition "Recyclable Composites" in New York displays twelve works of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) students, made of Twintex® (matériO T0119).

You don't know what to wear on saturday night?

Imagine a metallic alloy, which physical characteristics could be changed as wished only thanks to an electric current.

Had you ever seen a thirteen legged table?

You thought you knew Herman Miller's Aeron Chair in all its glory and all its colors?

The competition between metals and plastics to create smartphones is important:

Utilizing bamboo in a non-traditional manner and combining it with resin, Fransen Meng created a furniture collection which allows the user to see the hollowness of the stalks through the resin as

You just don't know what to do with your expired accounts book? Hannah Lobley found a good way to recycle them.

What if trees became bioluminescent? Students from Cambridge are trying to develop ways of making trees glow so they can be used as natural streetlights without the need for electricity.

Nendo Design Studio has designed a chair that can actually match any interior style as it is... transparent!

This reactive glass (matériO G0604) absorbs toxins from water. It reacts as a sponge, being able to grow eight times its initial weight.

If you have enough oranges, you can actually produce electricity! This video from Tropicana explains you how...

Down under Indian Ocean, a snail has come up with a defense system in order to protect itself from predators. Its shell, partly made out of iron, is a real shield.

Next step after recycling : eating!

Chinese scientists have studied the mortar of the Great Wall and discovered that the workers used a kind of sticky rice porridge to assemble bricks!

Mendeleïev is probably horrified but Russel Walks surely offers us a great pleasure by re-visiting the periodical table classifying all imaginary elements science fiction movies and litteratur

For the Expo 2010 Shangai China, Finish architecture office JKMM used a recycled material for a building cladding.

MIT scientists have discovered a strange and potentially interesting phenomenon : to coat carbon nanotubes with an inflammable substance and to then initiate combustion produces a high po

Mie Industry Enterprise Support Center (MIESC) announced that it prototyped a "sheet-type all-solid polymer lithium storage battery" by using only printing processes. The battery is

Scientists from Cornell University came up with a system that could be used to make gloves or shoes being able to stick and unstick on walls or Post-it papers that could hold a load such as keys.

A fast and easy way to produce a chair, the recipe being given by Rich GILBERT, a Royal College of Art student. You just need a mould, inflatable balloons and resin.

A good idea for gifts : this coming Satruday, the 12th, why don't you go visit Superstructure Studio in Paris to discover Pascal Lion's last jewelries and accessories made out of chainmail (

Orchestrated by PARIS ILLUMINE PARIS, 3 events dedicated to light on the 15th, 16th and 17th of December will take place in Le Lieu du Design in Paris.

BATIMAT fair ended few days ago, it was crowded and quite interesting! If you wish to discover some pictures of the event, please follow the link...

You find this beetle, called "Stenocara" in the desert of Namibia. It is able to survive by collecting water from morning fog using its bumpy shell.

Pixelskin01 is a membrane, a smart surface that behaves both as a window and a video screen.

Murmure, a design office has created a series of thermosensitive business cards. Ink changes color when in contact with body heat (matériO O0087).

This cool new technology called cholesteric liquid crystal display (ChLCD - matériO O0701) can revolutionize both, cellphone usage as well as design.

Orange recently presented a "concept tent" in England, using innovative materials you'll be able to find in our database. This tent has a traditional shape and is very easy to put up.

matériO will exhibit during 3 days in Frankfurt at Material Vision fair. This trade show is a gold mine for material innovation and we'll keep you informed of what we found there,

Do not miss Material_Vision fair in Frankfurt am Main between the 16th and the 18th of June : Materials for Product Development, Design and Architecture International Trade Fair and Lecture Fo

A new world record : the blackest material ever, the darkest of all!

This fascinating piece has completely been handmade by Kouichi Okamoto : made without screws or any other material, this "composition chair" is the result of 6 months bending alumini

Daniel Michalik, an American designer, found of cork, uses it for wall coverings, furniture, accessories...

What could be more fascinating than watching your tea or coffee cup gain colors along the time? A thin design appears, creating a network and revealing ceramic's nature. Playing with the

matériO is now right in the center of Paris, new showroom, new neighbours and lots of new desires !

Crazy what you can imagine at a nanoscopic scale! This time, a new artificial muscle that you can control by electrical impulses, developped by Dallas University.

For those who missed it - as we did!

Everywhere in the world, and for years already, companies have been trying to produce plastics as high-performance and technical as ever but without using oil resources.

For decades, human design engineers have been laboring to make more efficient machines, like propeller blades that produce steady airflow patterns.

Nice surprise this morning : we just received amazing new samples (O0433) with surprising effects : snake skin like, optical ef

This non-woven polyethylene textile (matériO P0056 - T0243), commonly used within agriculture and industry for its lightness

American scientists just developped a microfibre textile that generates electricity. Mp3 devices as well as mobile phones, for instance, could therefore never tired out!

Collaborations between a Greek Technology Institute and an English University could result in the launch of the first bra that detects breast cancer even several years before a tumor appears.

Magnificent, it is... with a sandwich structured cone releasing a remarkably pure sound.

Once again, nanotechnologies strike again and magically drives mater into a corner. 

Imagine a paint full of thousands of polyurethane microspheres of two different types. Some of these microspheres enclose a liquid polymer and the others, its catalyst.

Imagine a small 3 mm square box with a thickness of 1 mm...

The "Lightstripe" is a minimal bedside lamp, designed by Daniel Michel from Germany. It undulates delicately, its head hosting white LEDs.

You can from now on access matériO's website and especially all the news about materials and technologies.

The TRRAM : Transparent Resistive Random Access Memory is a revolutionary discovery made by scientists from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, especially for phones and TVs.

Confirmed by Wikipedia and showed by this example : how trademarks and material technical names can be disturbing.

André Ravachol, our friend, just announced the launch of the first bag made out of a Plasticana sheet (matériO R0238, 15% o

matériO was today visiting EmballageExpo, a packaging fair in Paris.

What about a material that could change colors depending on various external stimulations such as temperature, electrical impulses or even a pinched of salt? Would be interesting!

Here is a clever use of the expanded polypoprylene (matériO R1188), a cousin of the expanded polystyrene (matériO R0783) : INFINI is a module of shelves which follows your needs.