A new type of electrical generator uses bacterial spores to harness the untapped power of evaporating water, according to research.
27 January 2014
Synthetic biology special issue published in the journal Chemical Engineering Science
21 January 2014
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21 January 2014
Access a special issue of Polymer, focusing on porous polymers.
17 January 2014
Researchers compared the collective responses of the motor proteins to variations in motor numbers and cargo sizes.
17 January 2014
Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world’s fastest thin-film organic transistors.
16 January 2014
A "hybrid" anode developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could quadruple the life of lithium-sulfur batteries.
16 January 2014
The MATLAB figure viewer is now available in over 100 Elsevier journals, spanning materials science, computer science, engineering and more.
15 January 2014
The team has now demonstrated how a numerical simulation allows them to extract 3D data by combining diffraction patterns.
14 January 2014David Bradley
A new study on the nature of the interactions between halogen atoms in such various materials points to the possibility of designing bendy crystals.
14 January 2014David Bradley
A new method for analysing biological samples based on their chemical makeup is set to transform the way medical scientists examine diseased tissue.
10 January 2014
Researchers in the United States have suggested an alternative way to allocate science funding.
9 January 2014
Engineers hope a new type of vaccine shown to work in mice will one day make it cheaper and easy to manufacture on-demand vaccines for humans.
8 January 2014
Researchers have found an easy way to modify the molecular structure of a polymer commonly used in solar cells.
7 January 2014
Researchers have developed a technique for creating nanoparticles that carry two different cancer-killing drugs into the body.
7 January 2014
We look over the best materials science news items that are the most read over the month of December 2013.
2 January 2014Zara Preston
Researchers have developed a way to microscopically view battery electrodes while they are bathed in wet electrolytes.
2 January 2014