All Materials Science
Gummy material could improve battery safety
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2014
A chewing gum-like material could dramatically improve the safety of lithium ion batteries by repla…
3D printing boost from cheap titanium powder
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2014
The high cost of titanium powder has prohibited its use in 3D printing – with plastics being the pr…
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…
‘Writing’ artificial membranes on graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2013
Graphene has emerged as a versatile new surface on which to assemble model cell membranes mimicking…
12-sided quasicrystal discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Oct 2013
A new form of a 12-sided quasicrystal has been accidentally discovered by researchers in Germany.!-…
Motorised matchsticks keep on going
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Oct 2013
Motorised microscopic matchsticks whose speed and direction of motion can be controlled have been d…
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…
Redefining the ampere
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jun 2013
The National Physical Laboratory and the University of Cambridge have joined forces in redefining t…
Sponge soaks up coal emissions
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Materials Science
A new energy-efficient ‘solar sponge’ developed by researchers at Monash Universit…
Could Spider-Man’s web really stop a runaway train?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2013
A group of University of Leicester physics students have determined whether a scene in Spider-Man 2…
“Wandering meatloaf” snail’s teeth may improve solar cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2013
Materials Science
The teeth of a marine snail can be used to create less expensive, more efficient n…
X-rays shine light on Picasso’s paint choice
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013
High-energy X-rays have helped to resolve a decades-long debate among art historians about the kind…
The lightweight material 15 times stronger than steel
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2013
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed the strongest, lightest weight silica na…
Creating nanoscale rainbows
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2012
King’s College London scientists have discovered how to separate colours – “creating rainbows” usin…
Super nanoparticles assemble
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2012
Chemists from the University of Florida have developed a technique for growing new materials from n…
Laser beam 3D “painting” technique developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Oct 2012
A new method, developed at the Vienna University of Technology, uses laser beams to fix molecules a…
Controlled wrinkling
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2012
By stretching and releasing material in a controlled and orderly way, researchers from Massachusett…
Light as a graphite tube
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2012
At just 0.2mg per cubic centimetre, Aerographite is the lightest material in the world.!--more--
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