All Materials Science
Simple glass acts like AI
Added: 10 Jul 2019
A non-electrical, low cost piece of glass replicates a machine’s neural network in order to recogni…
Measurement science centre opens in London
Added: 5 Jul 2019
The Community for Analytical Measurement Science, a membership network for training and innovation …
Glorious celebration of imposters
Added: 17 Jun 2019
Ever wondered, despite all your scientific expertise, if you’ll be uncovered as a fraud? Don’t worr…
Harnessing regional strengths
Added: 17 Jun 2019
From distinctive strengths in transport innovation in the West Midlands to leadership in the life s…
Just play the game
Added: 10 Jun 2019
Games have never been more popular – but can they really help in the teaching of science? You bet y…
Innovation in data collection
Added: 5 Jun 2019
There are many examples of product enhancements using improved design and or different materials to…
Physicists edge closer to superconductivity at room temperature
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 24 May 2019
An international research team has claimed to have raised the temperature at which superconductivit…
China’s graphene dominance set to subside
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 23 May 2019
China's leading position in the graphene market may slip, according to a report from IDTechEx Resea…
Brexit bomb
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 15 May 2019
In the shifting sands of Brexit, there are some things of which we can be sure. And one of them fee…
Sand ‘bubbles’ flow like liquid
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 3 May 2019
Gravitational instabilities in granular particles of different densities could help us understand h…
Heat waves in graphite
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 4 Apr 2019
Heat has been found to behave like sound as it moves through graphite. Using a system of lasers, MI…
2D material improves in space
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 20 Mar 2019
Materials consisting of a single layer of atoms could be used in space missions due to their resili…
Hydrogel harvests water from the air
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 18 Mar 2019
A new solar powered technology absorbs moisture from the air and returns it as clean water.!--more-…
One man’s trash
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 7 Mar 2019
Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will dro…
Spider silk twists like muscle
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 5 Mar 2019
The presence of an amino acid in spider silk causes its fibres to contract and twist when exposed t…
Graphene capillaries
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 21 Feb 2019
Researchers at the National Graphene Institute have made atomic-scale capillaries with the material…
Graphene turned into dough for transport
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 29 Jan 2019
Graphene in the form of malleable dough could be more economical to store and transport and less pr…
Graphene centre
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 16 Jan 2019
A £60 million graphene research centre has been opened at the University of Manchester following fu…
Beating the diamond-standard
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 4 Jan 2019
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…
Liquid crystal elastomer morphs on-demand
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 21 Dec 2018
Rice University researchers have developed a liquid crystal elastomer that morphs between two diffe…