In what has been described has the worst environmental disaster to ever occur in the history of the United States on April 20, 2010, the BP Oil Spill involved a continuous spillage of an estimated 205.8 million gallons of oil and methane gas into the Gulf of Mexico for a duration of 87 straight days
By Benedette Cuffari
14 Mar 2017
In recent years, there has been huge advancements in 3D printing technologies, graphene research and energy storage.
By Liam Critchley
9 Mar 2017
Self-reversed magnetic hysteresis (SRMH) is a unique hysteresis phenomenon containing an antiparallel magnetisation to an applied magnetic field. This leads to an inverted hysteresis loop with a ‘negative’ net area.
By Liam Critchley
3 Mar 2017
The control of acoustic applications such as loudspeaker design, ultrasound imaging and acoustic particle manipulation currently relies on using fixed lenses and expensive phased arrays.
By Liam Critchley
2 Mar 2017
Researchers at the University of Cornell’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have recently developed a polymer that can combine PE and iPP.
By Benedette Cuffari
1 Mar 2017
Heterostructures are structures formed by reassembling isolated atomic layers such as graphene, hBN or TMDCs, one on top of each other in a precise chosen sequence to form a complex structure which has unusual properties and potential applications.
By Benedette Cuffari
20 Feb 2017
An international team of researchers has now made this dream a reality. The team have managed to produce an innovative strategy to fabricate 2D polymers that consist of interwoven polymer fibres, held together by the interlocking mechanical forces that arise from the weaved pattern.
By Liam Critchley
20 Feb 2017
Researchers from the USA have created a series of flattened-nanotube reinforced thermoplastic composites, which have been fabricated as a function of buckypaper loading. The researchers incorporated a Parmax polymer resin, to increase and optimise the mechanical strength of these composites.
By Liam Critchley
17 Feb 2017
Boron nitride monolayers are fabricated by chemical vapour deposition (CVD), under a low pressure and high temperature. The monolayers are uniform in nature and only have a maximum thickness of 0.45 nm which allows this material to form an atomically thin coating.
By Liam Critchley
15 Feb 2017
A group of French researchers have developed a novel 3D printed microscopy chamber, known as UniverSlide, that can be used for multidimensional imaging.
By Liam Critchley
13 Feb 2017