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Eggshell waste used to capture rare earth elements

Comment: Composites can accelerate rail’s decarbonisation journey

Iron-based superconducting magnets developed by the Anglo-Japanese team are three times stronger than those available today

Researchers develop world’s strongest iron-based superconducting magnet

Electrified ‘sponge’ material can absorb CO2 directly from the air

Soft robotic pump helps food and drink through the oesophagus

Assoc Prof Duong Hai-Minh (second from left) and his team – Mr Goh Xue Yang (first from left), Mr Nguyen Tan Luon (third from left), and Mr Bai Tianliang (extreme right) – from NUS Dept of Mechanical Engineering developed innovative aerogels for radiative cooling (white aerogels) and absorption of electromagnetic waves (grey aerogels)

Double success for NUS aerogels

Pictured is a stretchable wearable devices incorporated on a newly developed material substrate that can adjust its dielectric properties to counter the disruptive effects of motion on interfacing electronics. The performance of the system was tested under various types of deforming motions, including twisting

New material enables stretchable wearable devices

Graduate student Yingqi Jia, left, and Professor Shelly Zhang used machine learning and 3D printing to fabricate a new bio-inspired material that may improve conventional methods for healing broken bones

New approach to orthopaedic repair

Professor Massimo Alioto, director of the FD-fAbrICS joint lab, speaking to participants from the industry and research community to share the latest developments in FD-SOI technologies at an industry showcase held on 3 May 2024

New chip tech offers energy efficiency for AI devices

A 3D-printed complex part made from the entirely bio-sourced feedstock

New bio-resin could enable truly circular 3D printing

Comment: How innovations in materials are changing the EV landscape

The battery developed in the lab is small but the team says the technology is scalable

Zinc-lignin batteries show promise for cheap storage