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New material for water desalination

December 2, 2015
Engineers at the University of Illinois have developed an energy efficient material for desalinating seawater.

Characterising the future of medicine

October 13, 2015
Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. However, access to the expertise and methodologies required to characterise new nanomaterials is limited. Now,...

Graphene ‘relative’ discovered

September 21, 2015
Scientists have found a new two dimensional material that resembles the structure of graphene. An international team of researchers led by the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) used...

Mind on matter – Mark Miodownik speaks up for Materials Science

September 14, 2015
Professor Mark Miodownik, Materials Scientist, Engineer and Broadcaster tells us about his current work and why we should love our material world You’ve recently published a paper on material stimuli...

1% battery, shutting down now. How biology can solve a very modern problem…

August 6, 2015
The key to the next big leap in battery technology is buried deep within our own cells says Dr Carol Lynn Curchoe – but can we harness it to create...

Top physics prize awarded to Professor Yablonovitch

July 7, 2015
The Institute of Physics has awarded its’ highest International award – the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize – to Professor Eli Yablonovitch for his work on photonic crystals. Professor Yablonovitch...

Weld precision taken to the next level

June 23, 2015
By using a new laser method, scientists have created the world’s smallest plastic weld. Scientists at the TWI research organisation and the University of Cambridge used electron beam (EB) lithography...

Metamaterial hails efficient wireless power transfer

May 13, 2015
By using metasurfaces rather than antennas, scientists created an electromagnetic energy collector that can achieve full absorption of waves. A research team at the University of Waterloo in Canada used...

Graphene speeds up light conversion

May 8, 2015
Researchers have created a graphene-based photodetector to convert absorbed light to electricity at ultrafast speeds. Scientists at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain used graphene to create a photodetector...

New chameleon-like material

April 8, 2015
Engineers have created a chameleon-like material that can change colour on demand.By using flexible, high-contrast metastructure, scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have created an incredibly thin membrane...

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