All Materials

The chameleon and the crystal maze
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2018
How a crystal structure within the skin of the famous colour-changing lizard holds the key to weara…

Glass sponge
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Aug 2018
The Olympus Image of the Year Award 2018 is open for entries. Upload your images by the end of Octo…

A weight off your mind
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2018
Fiona Auty explains why the National Physical Laboratory is going to the immense trouble of redefin…

Taking on the resistance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2018
It is no secret that there is a desperate need for a response to antimicrobial resistance, so what …

Plastic (not so) fantastic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2018
Microplastic pollution of the oceans is a deadly ecological problem, yet oddly we cant find 99% of …

Zinc oxide crystals
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2017
This image displays the intergrowth of Zinc oxide crystals.

Bringing the Sun down to Earth
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2017
Technical difficulties, experimental dead-ends and eye-watering development costs – yet the gargant…

Where’s our wonder material?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2017
Never has materials science had such a high profile – something almost entirely down to the advance…

Heart of glass
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2017
Paul Le Pinnet is SOG Group’s Chief Scientific Glassblower. He is a fellow of The British Society o…

Fantastic ceramic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Aug 2016
From joint replacements to microfluidics – additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, promises so much…

Nanoparticles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2016
Transmission electron microscopy image showing self-assembled diblock copolymer nanoparticles.

Creating a lasting smile
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2016
Can the humble autoclave really be the keystone of cutting edge Materials Science? One team from Le…

A hole new approach
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2015
Jemma Rowlandson tells us how nanoporous materials are set to take on the world, and win

Mind on matter - Mark Miodownik speaks up for Materials Science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2015
Professor Mark Miodownik, Materials Scientist, Engineer and Broadcaster tells us about his current …

1% battery, shutting down now. How biology can solve a very modern problem…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2015
The key to the next big leap in battery technology is buried deep within our own cells says Dr Caro…

A tip top approach to analysis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Dec 2013
Nanotechnology can only develop with appropriate analysis and measurement. The ‘Lab on a chip’ capa…

Graphene nanoribbons – an exercise in control
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2013
Graphene nanoribbons offer a range of useful properties. Now, with clever use of water and incredib…

Keeping tabs on nanoparticles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2013
As the importance of nanoparticles increases in both industry and academia, measuring and character…

From metallurgist to artist
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2013
When David Starley, an archaeometallurgist-inspired artist, wanted to restore and conserve a 12th c…