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The robot is made of segments that can fold into a flat disk and extend into a cylinder. Partial folds bend the robot and allow for motion and steering

Soft origami robot bends and twists in mazes

LVR-15 research reactor at CVŘ

UKAEA takes next fusion STEP with Czech mate

A biodegradable "living plastic" is made by combining thermoplastic polyurethane pellets (left) and Bacillus subtilis spores (right) that have been engineered to survive the high temperatures used to produce the plastic

Bacteria added to plastic to enhance biodegradability

Haiyan Wang (left), the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering in Purdue University’s School of Materials Engineering, and graduate student Chao Shen work on a transmission electron microscope at Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering

Ceramics made plastically deformable at room temperature

Ionoptika's J105 machine

World first facility to offer unprecedented insights into materials

The NTU team designed shape-memory polymers, which are smart materials that can ‘remember’ their previous forms, in the form of hair-like fibrils which they found in their testing to provide maximum adhesive strength

Reusable adhesive could let people ‘climb walls like Spider-Man’

Capacitors with stratified 2D nanofillers embedded in the polymer matrix

High-energy-density capacitor promises multiple applications

An ivory object, assumed to be of Asian elephant origin, under the microscope inside a Renishaw in via Raman microspectrometer

Raman spectroscopy differentiates legal and illegal ivory

Surrey sensors to aid study of stellar creation  

KTU propose new method for wind turbine blade recycling

Action urged to avert lead pollution health crisis from battery recycling