All Materials

One man’s trash
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2019
Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will dro…

Beating the diamond-standard
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2019
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…

The Colours of Iron
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2018
‘The Colours of Iron' (Lochaber, Scotland) by Ursula Lawrence took the third place) in the Geologic…

Biodegradable Microbowls
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Nov 2018
Biodegradable Microbowls by Tayo Sanders II from the University of Oxford. Many tumours lack an ext…

Using science to change our world
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2018
As the Royal Institution sets it sights on expanding the public understanding of science, we hear f…

The art of taking things apart
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2018
Science presenter, broadcaster and even physical phenomena namer… we spent a minute with Steve Moul…

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 …