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Firms like the English Electric Company said they benefited from work done by agencies such as the NEL

May 1960: Tracking the UK's tech transfer

Asst Prof Lum Yanwei (centre), Dr Wang Bingqing (left), and Mr Wang Meng (right) from NUS Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

New technique developed to transform waste CO2 into high-value chemicals

Researchers have developed a novel flame-retardant, smoke-suppressing, and superhydrophobic transparent bamboo, poised as a promising substitute for silica glass

Transparent bamboo offers challenge to silica glass

On demand panel session: How digital solutions can drive sustainable outcomes across the project lifecycle

2024 Engineering & Manufacturing Awards (EMAs) close for entries tomorrow!

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