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Hydrogel harvests water from the air

March 18, 2019
News
A new solar powered technology absorbs moisture from the air and returns it as clean water.University of Texas engineers used hydrogels, gel-polymer hybrid materials that act as “super sponges” and...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Materials Science
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One man’s trash

March 7, 2019
Insight
Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will drop… so are there alternative production methods which could be more environmentally sound? We chat...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Geology, Interviews, Materials, Materials Science
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Spider silk twists like muscle

March 5, 2019
News
The presence of an amino acid in spider silk causes its fibres to contract and twist when exposed to humidity changes.Researchers at MIT discovered that this process, called supercontraction, is...
Materials
Materials Science
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Graphene capillaries

February 21, 2019
News
Researchers at the National Graphene Institute have made atomic-scale capillaries with the material. The artificial channels are just one atom in size, small enough to block the flow of smallest...
Materials
Materials Science
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Graphene turned into dough for transport

January 29, 2019
News
Graphene in the form of malleable dough could be more economical to store and transport and less prone to combustion.A team at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering made the dough...
Chemistry, Materials
Chemistry, Materials Science
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Graphene centre

January 16, 2019
News
A £60 million graphene research centre has been opened at the University of Manchester following funding from UK Research and Innovation. The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) will engage with...
Materials
Materials Science
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Beating the diamond-standard

January 4, 2019
Feature
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alternative is on…  How hard is super-hard? With advances in material science and engineering, comes the possibility...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, In Depth, Materials, Materials Science, Physics
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Liquid crystal elastomer morphs on-demand

December 21, 2018
News
Rice University researchers have developed a liquid crystal elastomer that morphs between two different shapes.Shapes programmed into the shape-shifting polymer appear in ambient conditions and melt away with the application...
Materials
Materials Science
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The Colours of Iron

December 11, 2018
Insight
'The Colours of Iron' (Lochaber, Scotland) by Ursula Lawrence took the third place) in the Geological society's 2018 Earth Science Week photography competition, 'Earth Science in our Lives.'
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Focal Point, Geology, Materials, Materials Science
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Artificial synapse created from nanowire memristor

December 6, 2018
News
A German team has built an artificial synapse from nanowires that can replicate functions of biological synapses.The component, developed by a team at Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen Universities, is...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Materials Science, Nanotechnology
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