13/02/2014
A £10.3million grant has been awarded to four UK universities to find safer, more sustainable alternatives to the rare, expensive and difficult to source raw materials used by industry.
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30/01/2014
Taking inspiration from natural structures like seashells and teeth, researchers in Canada have been able to significantly increase the toughness of glass.
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27/01/2014
Flexible, layered materials textured with nanoscale wrinkles could be used to control the wavelengths and distribution of waves of sound and light. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US say the technique could have numerous applications from non-destructive testing (NDT) to sound suppression.
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20/01/2014
A carbon nanotube-based coating, said to greatly reduce the flammability of foam used in furniture, has been unveiled by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers.
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05/12/2013
A new 3D printing material has been introduced by Stratasys, which it says enables the creation of tougher, more flexible unfilled nylon parts.
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28/11/2013
Engineers from New York's Columbia University have created a nano-mechanical system that can create FM radio signals.
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22/11/2013
Taking inspiration from nature, researchers in the US have engineered what they believe are the most super-hydrophobic surfaces yet.
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20/11/2013
In a breakthrough which could significantly extend the lifetime of Li-ion batteries, researchers in the US have created a battery electrode that can 'heal itself'.
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14/11/2013
Finnish materials company Carbodeon has developed a new thermal filler that is said to increase the conductivity of thermally conductive polymers by 25%.
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15/10/2013
Move over graphene, researchers at Rice University have uncovered a new material which they believe is the world's strongest.
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26/09/2013
Scientists in Australia have found away to turn waste plastic bags into carbon nanotube membranes, ultra strong and highly sophisticated materials with a variety of potential applications, including filtration, sensing and energy storage.
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20/09/2013
Material testing equipment manufacturer Instron has developed a series of Rheology systems to determine the melt flow rates of materials.
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18/09/2013
A production partnership between two Austrian companies could soon see the production of a flexible photovoltaic film. Forster Verkehrs and Crystalsol are to produce a new type of flexible photovoltaic film based on a crystalline semiconductor powder.
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17/09/2013
Researchers in Denmark have found a way to make the world's most popular building material stronger and more eco-friendly.
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30/08/2013
An Australian company called Zeo has developed and patented an ultra strong, eco-friendly building material, using only water and cellulose.
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29/08/2013
The EPSRC has awarded a £3.3million grant to the University of Southampton for the development and manufacture of advanced composite materials.
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28/08/2013
A new coating has been created which, according to its developers, provides comparable or better performance to hard chrome with none of the environmental issues.
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12/08/2013
Researchers at North Carolina State University in the US have created a flexible nano-scaffold for rechargeable lithium ion batteries. It's hoped the development could help mobile phone and electric car batteries last longer.
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08/08/2013
A Japanese start up called Spiber has developed an artificial spider silk which it claims is equal to steel in tensile strength yet as flexible as rubber.
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05/08/2013
Researchers at North Carolina State University are taking the development of soft robotic devices to a whole new level with electrically-charged hydrogels that can be patterned, folded and used to manipulate objects.
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31/07/2013
UK firm Surrey NanoSystems has utilised its know-how in nanotechnology processing to deposit the world's blackest material on lightweight, temperature-sensitive substrates.
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05/07/2013
Cheaper, more environmentally friendly solar cells could be on the way thanks to a new antifreeze material discovered in the US.
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02/07/2013
Hardide Coatings has successfully completed the first of two test phases to approve its new hard facing coating on an application for AgustaWestland.
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01/07/2013
Oxford University researchers have won a £25,0000 prize to develop a coating with the potential to reduce the manufacturing costs of next generation solar cells.
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25/06/2013
Trelleborg Industrial Solutions has launched DragonCoat, an innovative fire-retardant coating for rubber components.
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