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Simple, beautiful, classic: MIT creates blackest black material

Added: 16 Sep 2019

Engineers have claimed a new record for the blackest material ever created.

Scalable membrane could filter greenhouse gases

Added: 11 Sep 2019

A new membrane filtration could be used to separate greenhouse gases from waste emissions on an ind…

$5.8M for renewable photocatalytic converter

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Houston-based plasmonics company Syzygy has raised $5.8 million to develop its eco-friendly photoca…

Medipath adds AI diagnostics to pathology labs

Added: 5 Sep 2019

AI diagnostics company Ibex Medical Analytics has partnered Medipath, the largest network of privat…

Scaled-down reactor turns greenhouse gas into fuel

Added: 4 Sep 2019

A newly-developed reactor containing a 2D catalyst is able to covert atmospheric CO2 into pure liqu…

International research projects get £3.6M

Added: 29 Aug 2019

Research England has divvied up £3.6 million for eight research institutions in the UK to help fund…

Calcium ion used as micro engine

Added: 23 Aug 2019

Theoretical physicists have used the intrinsic angular momentum of a calcium ion to effectively tur…

EPSRC funds bandage sensor tech

Added: 13 Aug 2019

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has given engineers £360,000 to develop …

Leeds creates thinnest 2D gold

Added: 8 Aug 2019

University of Leeds scientists have claimed first fabrication of freestanding 2D gold with a sub‐na…

Imperial develops fluorescent artificial cell

Added: 31 Jul 2019

Imperial College London has created an artificial cell that fluoresces when it detects chemical cha…

Quantum microphone measures phonons

Added: 30 Jul 2019

A quantum microphone that measures individual sound particles has the potential to create more comp…

Eye-controlled contact lenses

Added: 29 Jul 2019

Biomechanical engineers have created a robotic lens that allows the wearer to focus on an image thr…

Artificial synapse created from nanowire memristor

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 6 Dec 2018

A German team has built an artificial synapse from nanowires that can replicate functions of biolog…

Nanotech specialist expands at The Heath

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 29 Nov 2018

The Heath science park has created a new research and development facility for Nanoco Group – a lea…

Molecular motor powered by light alone

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 23 Nov 2018

Chemists have developed the first molecular motor that can be powered by just light, irrespective o…

Metal enzymes

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 20 Nov 2018

An international team of researchers has transferred certain structural characteristics of natural …

Optical storage speeds up data processing

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 16 Nov 2018

Researchers are developing a new type of optical memory storage unit that works with photons of lig…

Double trouble improves optical sensing at nanoscale

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 18 Jun 2018

The precision of measuring nanoscopic structures could be substantially improved by utilising the q…

Boron set to become king of the nanotubes

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 4 Jun 2018

Boron nitride nanotubes are primed to become major building blocks for next-generation composite an…

Big success for UK nanodots

qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 25 Apr 2018

A UK manufacturer of cadmium-free quantum dots and nanomaterials, is expanding after signing an agr…