Materials
New discovery: Nanometric imprinting on fibre
25 Jan 2017
A wolverine inspired material
28 Dec 2016
Engineers create programmable silk-based materials with embedded, pre-designed functions
27 Dec 2016
Microfactories turn unwanted electronics into valuable metal alloys; solve global e-waste crisis
07 Dec 2016
The breakthrough new process recovers the considerable wealth of resources embedded in e-waste while overcoming the challenges of toxicity and the often prohibitively high costs of conventional industrial-scale recycling
Making spines from sea water
06 Dec 2016
Nylon fibres made to flex like muscles
29 Nov 2016
MIT engineers find a simple and inexpensive new approach to creating bending artificial muscle fibres
Uncovering the secrets of friction on graphene
24 Nov 2016
Semiconductor-free microelectronics are now possible, thanks to metamaterials
08 Nov 2016
Using metamaterials, engineers have been able to build a micro-scale device that shows a 1,000-per cent increase in conductivity when activated by low voltage and a low power laser
Towards better metallic glasses
25 Oct 2016
Non-toxic solvent removes barrier to commercialisation of ‘wonder material’ perovskite solar cells
20 Oct 2016
Long may you wave, borophene
06 Oct 2016
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