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…