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Materials

Ionoptika's J105 machine

World first facility to offer unprecedented insights into materials

The NTU team designed shape-memory polymers, which are smart materials that can ‘remember’ their previous forms, in the form of hair-like fibrils which they found in their testing to provide maximum adhesive strength

Reusable adhesive could let people ‘climb walls like Spider-Man’

Capacitors with stratified 2D nanofillers embedded in the polymer matrix

High-energy-density capacitor promises multiple applications

An ivory object, assumed to be of Asian elephant origin, under the microscope inside a Renishaw in via Raman microspectrometer

Raman spectroscopy differentiates legal and illegal ivory

Surrey sensors to aid study of stellar creation  

KTU propose new method for wind turbine blade recycling

Action urged to avert lead pollution health crisis from battery recycling

Biogrpaphite, a drop-in replacement for synthetic graphite, can be created from sustainable forestry industry by-products like wood chips

Comment: Onshoring secures mineral supply chains as global economy electrifies

Gel-lifted fingerprints tested for drugs in forensics breakthrough

The UQ-developed technology absorbs carbon dioxide and generates electricity

Nanogenerator consumes CO2 to generate electricity

Manufacturing with this new approach uses new tooling which enables a much reduced process time

Project to investigate hybrid approach to titanium manufacturing

Suction cup grasping a stone

Video of the week: Octopus suckers inspire grip of robotic suction cup