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Industrialisation of fundamental physics research advances light source and sensor technologies
March 29, 2021
Collaboration between specialist academic research and industrial expert engineers is proving key to the accelerated transfer of research knowledge from lab to market and the advancement of real world light...

Team ice’ uncover crucial information to aid the development of new more active cryoprotectants
March 17, 2021
Researchers uncover new understanding around the interactions between synthetic polymers and ice formation, underpinning new understanding around the fundamental principles of ice re-crystallisation. This crucial piece to the puzzle was...
Atmospheric Sciences, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Food & Bev, Food Science, Geophysics, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Solid State Physics, Thermodynamics

Laboratory Management: Monitoring the cold chain
March 5, 2021
With many COVID vaccines relying on ultra-low temperature storage, Matt Feeny explains why and how automated and 'in transit' refrigeration monitoring systems will be essential and beneficial to the efficiency...
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Materials, Materials Science, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Paleobiology, Parasitology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physics, Virology

Unleashing the power of digital image analysis
March 1, 2021
The practice of image analysis has been evolving for years, but the UK's lockdown has hit fast-forward on its shift into the digital world. Here, Andreas Theodosi discusses the impact...
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Chemical Engineering, Covid-19, Cytology, Developmental Biology, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical

UK gov to launch Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA)
February 23, 2021
As part of its plans to cement the UK’s position as a global science superpower and build back better through innovation, the government plans to emulate high risk, high reward...

Kinky graphene ‘straintronics’ for smaller, faster microchips
February 16, 2021
Using 'straintronics' rather than electronics, researchers have produced the tiniest microchips yet by applying what is effectively nano-origami to graphene to create structural functionality. These nanomaterial developments allows more microchips...

Closed-loop chemical recycling of common petrochemical realised
January 28, 2021
Imagine plastics and rubber that can be chemically unzipped back to reusable monomers for recycling. In the way of all the most exciting advances, this process of depolymerisation - a...

Antiviral coating kills viruses and bacteria for product lifetime
January 26, 2021
Can you imagine a world where you wouldn't have to worry about disease transmission from surfaces such as door handles, keyboards, bank notes, and even doctor's gowns and facemasks? Matt...

Unlimited gas separations materials data and analysis for industry
January 25, 2021
An international research team has reduced the analysis of materials for gas separation from weeks to hours. The extraction of pure gases for use across the energy, utilities, food and...

Developing multi-functional catalysts with light switches
January 25, 2021
Researchers were able to observe the atomic-scale features of a catalyst using an environmental transmission electron microscope, enabling them to manipulate and optimise catalytic reactions using light. This technique could...

