Materials Science comment, September 2013

Stronger and greener concrete from outer space

Researchers have developed a stronger, greener form of concerete made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch and a pinch of salt.

The tribovoltaic effect

Electrospray printing: Unravelling the history of a support free three-dimensional additive manufacturing technology

3D printing of living structural biocomposites

Plastic proteins behave just like the real thing

Using artificial intelligence, researchers have designed random heteropolymers that can mimic many of the properties of natural proteins.