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Images of uncoated (top left, right) and coated (bottom left, right) nylon-6,6 fabrics after nine washing cycles taken by a scanning electron microscope

Coating cuts amount of microplastic fibres entering waterways

Bath aerogel spinout eyes aerospace market

The material contains a layer that can take on two conformations: solid copper that retains most infrared heat, which helps keep the building warm; or a watery solution that emits infrared, which can help cool the building

Building material offers low-energy solution to maintaining temperature

UK could become ‘an industrial irrelevance’ without EV investment warn industry experts

Ultrasonic sensors identify diversions in gas pipelines

UK witnessing R&D offshoring exodus

Comment: The need to bridge innovation gaps in research & development

Fresh cash injection for UK battery research projects

Twistrons, made from spun CNTs, convert mechanical movement into electricity. Scanning electron microscope images show how UT Dallas researchers made a new kind of twistron by intertwining three individual strands of spun carbon nanotube fibres to make a single yarn, similar to the way conventional yarns used in textiles are constructed. A previous version of a harvester (right) was made by coiling the CNT fibres. The scale bars indicate 100 micrometres

Carbon nanotube ‘twistrons’ harvest mechanical energy to generate electricity

Particle size and zeta potential of electrode materials: better characterization, better performance

Cold winds for UK auto but EVs offer hope

Quantum satellite communications to be developed by the TeQuantS project

Thales Alenia Space to lead space-to-Earth quantum comms technologies project