It seems that scientists at Harvard have harnessed the power of bacterial spores to generate electricity. So how do they do it?
Well it seems that the spores of Bacillus subtilis are very...
By Stephen Morris
11/03/14
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I remember writing an article about Spanish scientists developing a polymer that could self-heal autonomously at room temperature and now I see that scientists at the University of Illinois...
By Stephen Morris
05/03/14
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The suface of a moth's eye uses an hexagonal pattern of bumps that are so close together that the light falling on their suface sees a single layer and is not refracted, allowing them to see at...
By Stephen Morris
05/03/14
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An article on awards given in the USA for sustainable construction featured the use of bacteria in the production of bricks, the provision of insulation and the developent of a healing system.
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By Stephen Morris
04/03/14
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Scientists in Hong Kong have developed a smart magentoelectric that can be used as a wireless sensor for electricty supply monitoring. The chip uses rare earth multiferroics to detect the...
By Stephen Morris
04/03/14
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In looking at ways to store harvested energy in order to make energy harvesting technologies such as solar a more cost effective means of generating power, scientists at North Carolina have been...
By Stephen Morris
04/03/14
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I see that scientists at Harvard have taken a leaf out of nature's ever growing technology base and used electrochemistry to develop a battery that has no metal electrodes.
It uses the...
By Stephen Morris
04/03/14
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The Energy Harvesting Network is holding its annual one-day dissemination event in partnership with the TSB’s Energy Harvesting Special Interest Group on 12th March 2014 at Hamilton House,...
By Stephen Morris
28/02/14
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It seems that an Atlanta company, MedShape, has secured funding to help it launch a soft tissue anchor that is essentially a shape memory polymer. It allows surgeons to attach tendons,...
By Stephen Morris
31/01/14
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Just before the Christmas break the Smart Materials Sector arranged an evening meeting at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London focused on m etamaterials: those materials...
By Stephen Morris
31/01/14
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As a part of an initiative to look at ‘horizontal issues’ for energy harvesting, it was proposed that the Materials KTN work with a designer to develop design concepts addressing the use of new...
By Rob Mills
31/01/14
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Just before the Christmas break Smart Materials Sector arranged an evening meeting at The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining in London to take a look at auxetics, t hese counterintuitive...
By Stephen Morris
31/01/14
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Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created tactile sensors from composite films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles similar to the highly...
By Stella Job
30/01/14
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I recently read that researchers at MIT in Boston have exceeded the properties of the lotus leaf in material insired by the Morpho butterfly and nasturtium leaves. They apparently have ridges...
By Stephen Morris
06/01/14
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Apparently researchers at Stanford University have developed a polymer coating for the silicon electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. These electrodes crack over time as they expand when being...
By Stephen Morris
09/12/13
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I recently attended a Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC) dissemination event that included a presentation from Qibin Zao from Cambridge University. His outline of polymer opal...
By Stephen Morris
09/12/13
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The Smart Materials Sector of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network and the Smart Materials and Systems Committee of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining are offering two evening...
By Stephen Morris
06/12/13
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The Smart Materials Sector of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network and the Smart Materials and Systems Committee of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining are offering two evening...
By Stephen Morris
05/12/13
31 Views
I couldn't resist to report on a study of fire ants that are said to behave as an elastic solid and a viscous liquid when acting together as a super organism. So we are talking biomimetics again...
By Stephen Morris
02/12/13
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Apparently NASA are developing genius materials on board the International Space Station. They describe them as self-assembling smart materials, however they describe smart materials as...
By Stephen Morris
02/12/13
312 Views
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