Materials management deals with the research, development, manufacturing and processing of raw and industrial materials. Key aspects here are biological and medical issues, which play an increasingly important role in this field.
innovations-report offers in-depth articles related to the development and application of materials and the structure and properties of new materials.
This month’s issue focuses on thin films, and includes:•Functional films – A deposition technique developed by the Department of Materials at Imperial College…
It poses great problems to our society, making it the subject of investigation for many research groups, which dedicate great efforts to find means to prevent…
Which plastic is right for what application and how technically safe these products and construction units manufactured from plastics are can only be answered…
The yarns have been developed by The William Lee Innovation Centre (WLIC), based in the University’s School of Materials – and have the potential to be…
A definition of piezoelectricity – piezo being Greek for “subjected to pressure” – is the generation of the electrical polarisation of a material as a response…
MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt…