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Materials

Black Bear secure €5m to industrially upcycle carbon black from old tyres

Singapore team develop world's first PET aerogels from recycled plastics

New material mimics nature to regulate temperature

Cooling metamaterial scaled up for low power air con

Molecular sieve sorts ethylene from crude oil

MIT team fractures graphene to create cell-like robots

Robust composite to reduce price of converting solar heat to electricity

Carbon fibre can act as a structural battery component in vehicle bodies

Stabilising mat offers hope for commercialising lithium sulphur batteries

Layered platinum alloy smashes US fuel cell targets

Design thinking: Lack of design data is hampering innovation

Fashion faux pas as microplastics are traced to synthetic textiles