All Materials Science


Innovation in data collection

Added: 5 Jun 2019

There are many examples of product enhancements using improved design and or different materials to…

Physicists edge closer to superconductivity at room temperature

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 May 2019

An international research team has claimed to have raised the temperature at which superconductivit…

China’s graphene dominance set to subside

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 May 2019

China's leading position in the graphene market may slip, according to a report from IDTechEx Resea…

Brexit bomb

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2019

In the shifting sands of Brexit, there are some things of which we can be sure. And one of them fee…

Sand ‘bubbles’ flow like liquid

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2019

Gravitational instabilities in granular particles of different densities could help us understand h…

Heat waves in graphite

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2019

Heat has been found to behave like sound as it moves through graphite. Using a system of lasers, MI…

2D material improves in space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2019

Materials consisting of a single layer of atoms could be used in space missions due to their resili…

Hydrogel harvests water from the air

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2019

A new solar powered technology absorbs moisture from the air and returns it as clean water.!--more-…

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…

Spider silk twists like muscle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2019

The presence of an amino acid in spider silk causes its fibres to contract and twist when exposed t…

Graphene capillaries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2019

Researchers at the National Graphene Institute have made atomic-scale capillaries with the material…

Graphene turned into dough for transport

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jan 2019

Graphene in the form of malleable dough could be more economical to store and transport and less pr…

Graphene centre

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2019

A £60 million graphene research centre has been opened at the University of Manchester following fu…

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…

Liquid crystal elastomer morphs on-demand

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2018

Rice University researchers have developed a liquid crystal elastomer that morphs between two diffe…

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…

Artificial synapse created from nanowire memristor

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2018

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

Flexibility of crystal surfaces shown in real-time

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2018

Real-time imaging has shown the flexibility of crystal surfaces upon the introduction of a guest mo…

Flexible charge-storage developed for clothing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Nov 2018

Materials scientists from the US have developed a method for making a charge-storing system that is…

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…