Materials comment, July 2013

Flashy process derives both graphene and hydrogen from waste plastic

Researchers have shown that conerting waste plastics into graphene by rapid flash Joule heating also results in the production of hydrogen.

Single-shot forward and inverse hierarchical architected materials design for nonlinear mechanical properties using an Attention-Diffusion model

Smart composite detects different types of damage

carbon fiber reinforced composite combined with piezoelectric nanoparticles acts as a self-powered sensor to detect stress and damage

New material that cleans decontaminated water

‘Engineered living material’ that decontaminates pollutants from water

Thinnest possible MOF film separates hydrogen and nitrogen

A novel metal-organic framework film with the smallest possible thickness can perform record levels of hydrogen-nitrogen separation.