All Materials articles – Page 8
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Glass folded into intricate origami shapes
Embedding silica particles into a polymer creates a bendable material that can be converted into glass
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Tentacled droplets swim with stored heat energy
Microdroplets with retractable tendrils could help researchers understand how bacteria move
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Tiniest Turing patterns found in atomically thin bismuth
Nanoscale stripes and networks that resemble animal markings could be used to make quantum wires
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Invisible graphene veil protects paintings from fading
Thin layers of graphene could prevent up to 70% of light-induced colour fading
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Stealthy robot trout could infiltrate schools of fish and monitor marine pollution
Piezoelectric robotic fish swims like the real thing and harvests energy that could power on-board sensors
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Experimental observations of bubbles containing multiple electrons
Bubbles in liquid helium containing multiple electrons could be used to develop quantum simulators
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Elastic ice stretch the limits of frozen physics
Flexible ice microfibres undergo unusual phase transitions during bending
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Webinar
Moving beyond spreadsheets: rational design of materials using advanced informatics and machine learning
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Is chemical recycling of plastics the future?
Join us to find out how the existing recycling system works, where we are with chemical recycling, and the opportunities and challenges it presents for the future of recycling
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Trends in modern hit discovery: How your ultra-large screens can benefit from machine learning
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Nanomaterial stores radicals to power photopolymerisation in the dark
Reaction driven by long-lived radicals experiences fewer side reactions than photopolymerisation under light irradiation
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Photocatalytic system mimics sunflowers by bending towards light
Phototropism boosts photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production
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Business
Searching for more sustainable resin materials
Paul Jones of Bitrez is the 2021 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
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Genetically engineered microbes convert waste plastic into vanillin
Plastic bottle becomes industrially useful product thanks to biosynthetic transformation
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Feature
Reaching the molecular limit of magnetic memory
Clever chemistry could help computers cram even more data onto their hard drives. Rachel Brazil reports on single-molecule magnets
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Iodine revealed to be killer species that destroys tin-based perovskites
New insights into the mechanism that inactivates tin solar cells could lead to greener, more efficient devices
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New family of glasses made from molten hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite
Materials could find uses in energy sector
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Opinion
Molly Stevens: ‘Our society is tremendously unequal’
The innovative bioengineer on addressing healthcare inequalities and nurturing a collaborative group
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Composite materials created using glue made from metallic glass
Lanthanum-based metallic glass could help make materials with precise properties
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Distinguishing surface chemistry by touch
New research shows your finger can sense a single atom difference on a surface