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Blue-ringed octopus inspires camouflage tech

Solar powered wearables nearer with new conductive polymer

Schematic of a solid-state fuel cell made from the new material and titanium. The result of the galvanostatic discharge reaction showed that the Ti electrode was completely hydrogenated to TiH2 for x ≥ 0.2

Hydride ion-conducting solid electrolyte works at room temperature

Image illustrating the principle, structural design, and application of unidirectional carbon fiber-reinforced flexible piezoelectric nanocomposite materials

Japanese team develops piezo device for connected wearables

The AMBIC facility will help accelerate the development of new battery materials

HVM Catapult receives £12 million to set up new battery materials centre

Sir Peter Gregson, Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell, Prof David Knowles, with Sonal Raghuvanshi and TV Narendran via video link

Tata Steel and Royce to set up new advanced materials centre

Adaptive roof tile harnesses wax motor to heat and cool

Future potential applications include protective materials for spacecraft

Edinburgh Uni led team unveil “ultimate” engineering material

DAVP prints 3D constructs by curing sono-inks with focused ultrasound waves. The sono-thermal effect triggers the decomposition of the sono-inks to form polymer networks at the ultrasound focal zone

Ultrasound hardens sono-ink to create biocompatible 3D shapes

Project set to develop aluminium shape casting for aerospace components

Bioinspired membrane development aims for single contaminant selectivity

Paebbl scales up carbon-capture concrete tech