Materials Sciences

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.

Thin films – November issue of Materials World magazine

This month’s issue focuses on thin films, and includes:•Functional films – A deposition technique developed by the Department of Materials at Imperial College…

A conductive plastic fights corrosion

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…

Plastic World

Which plastic is right for what application and how technically safe these products and construction units manufactured from plastics are can only be answered…

High-tech textiles pave the way for glowing garments

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…

Designing new piezoelectric materials

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 gel changes color on demand

MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt…

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