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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…
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…
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…
Molecular ruby used as optical pressure sensor
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2018
Chemists have developed a molecular system capable of very precise optical pressure measurements.
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Electronic skin stretched to new limits
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2018
A research team in Saudi Arabia have found that metal carbide within a hydrogel composite senses, s…
Boron set to become king of the nanotubes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2018
Boron nitride nanotubes are primed to become major building blocks for next-generation composite an…
Graphene spikes slice away infection
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 May 2018
A tiny layer of graphene flakes could become a deadly weapon against bacteria according to scientis…
Creating and deleting magnets with a laser
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2018
An international team of scientists have found a way to write and delete magnets in an alloy using …
Big success for UK nanodots
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2018
A UK manufacturer of cadmium-free quantum dots and nanomaterials, is expanding after signing an agr…
Bone printing collaboration
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2018
A manufacturer of structural zirconia ceramics, has entered into a research project with a Portugue…
Shedding light on dark matter
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2018
Physicists have claimed the discovery of a new material that may be able to directly detect dark ma…
Electro-spinning breakthrough for high-tech clothing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2018
Materials scientists have developed a new nonwoven material that is electrically conductive as well…
Micropollutant capture receives EC grant
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2018
Biomaterial company, CustoMem, has received a European grant for its novel material – designed to c…
Doubling the life of Li-ion batteries with graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2018
New research suggests that the life of lithium-ion batteries could be more than doubled by using gr…
Graphene brings sports footwear breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jan 2018
A partnership is launching a revolutionary world-first in the sports footwear market following a co…