Indo-US workshop on nano-structured electronic materials (IUSWNM-2013)
The Indo-US Workshop on Nanostructured Electronics Materials : Challenges & Relevance to Electronics and Energy Research (IUSWNM-2013) was jointly organized by C-MET, India, Children’s Hospital,...
View ArticleMetamaterials: Searching for a better view – Frank Bello
Using their astute sensory lens, the human eye, our ancestors mapped the stars by collecting light being scattered through the earth's atmosphere beholding stories of our universe's past. That's long...
View ArticleAdvanced materials get a boost
The area of advanced materials, along with "robotics and autonomous systems" and grid scale energy storage, previously identified in the pre-budget statement as being key technologies by The Chancellor...
View ArticleFinding alternatives to critical raw materials
Many UK and European industries rely on a range of materials that are almost entirely imported and are often subject to extreme price volatility. Failing to find alternatives to meet this demand could...
View ArticleAT-SEA
Even today 90% of the worlds energy still comes from the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, all of which are in limited in supply and will one day be exhausted. AT-SEA hope...
View ArticleSLIPery and Self-Cleaning: A New Generation of Glass Coatings
Most visitors to the recently refurbished St. Pancras Station in London marvel at the station’s grand architecture, but I wonder how many realise that its vast glass roof is actually self-cleaning?...
View ArticleNano lipid Carriers
Nutraceuticals is a term applied to products that range from isolated nutrients, dietary supplements, herbal products, genetically modified foods and many of the processed foods on the market....
View ArticleThe hard matter of scientific fraud
Fellow blogger ChemBark recently reported how a paper released online in the American Chemical Society journal "Organometallics" has led to some surprising results. In the paper, the researchers...
View ArticleTeaching nano
The need for qualified nanotechnology specialists increases almost in line with the ever increasing array of applications being found in nanotechnology. The secret for the continued growth in this area...
View ArticleOh no, not another breakthrough!
Although press releases often use terms such as "breakthrough", "cutting edge", "turning point" and the media themselves focus on the "major advance" as if it represented a "paradigm shift" or "major...
View ArticleParsing the graphene hyperbole
Much, perhaps too much, has been said about graphene over the last few years. It has been sexed up as the wonder material of the age. Monolayer fishnet stocking up the shelves of future technological...
View ArticleGovernment funding in science
I noticed a recent article in this week’s Financial Times newspaper that worried me, it highlights the effects of the continued weak government spending on scientific research, not surprisingly the...
View ArticleWhat a waste
It's disconcerting when they talk about big numbers in environmental reports. For instance, the number of refrigerators that is dumped each year. It was a major problem at the time we were trying to...
View ArticleMaterials and machines
From Metropolis to The Day The Earth Stood Still, from 2001 to Bladerunner, The Terminator to The Machine (which premieres in March 2014) cinema has had a penchant for robots and artificial...
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UK facilities: the big science of looking at small stuff
Somewhere in a field in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, there are, side-by-side, two very large scientific instruments. One is housed partly in buildings as large as aircraft hangars, and partly under...
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Where did your laptop come from?
I seem to get through laptops at a rate of about one every 18-24 months. It's usually something trivial that forces me to buy a new one, a broken key on the keyboard (backspace and the letter "E"...
View ArticleNew manufacturing technologies get physical
With the Additive Manufacturing Production Application Initiative 2014 just around the corner Gerd Manz, VP Technology, adidas Group shared his thoughts on new manufacturing technologies. In your...
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Costabuck chemistry
Next time you're in a Costabuck coffee shop and dithering over whether to have a skinny frappamochachocaccino (decaff) with maple syrup topped with mint sprinkles, spare a thought for the materials...
View ArticleAll the days of our lives
I'm writing this on St Patrick's Day, which is also apparently Happy Song Day, Sunday just gone was Mothering Sunday (or Mother's Day if you want just the commercialized, non-religious version), it's...
View ArticleRed Lenses
Apparently, the world is become more and more near-sighted with 40% of the population of the USA needing prescription glasses to compensate for their myopia. The news reminded me of my own path from...
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