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Professor Elisa Hill-Yardin, Dr Shadi Houshyar and Professor Justin Yeung inspect a prototype of the iodine-infused filament

Antimicrobial suture material shows promise as alternative for mesh implants

KAUST spinout will extract lithium from seawater

An international team of researchers has developed a technique that uses liquid metal to create an elastic material that is impervious to both gases and liquids

Elastic material is impervious to gases and liquids

Comment: Promoting natural capital can help biodiversity and the climate

Industry giants target flue gases for sustainable chemicals

TIBI scientists have developed a cryofreezing method to create an aerogel substrate layer that is flexible, breathable, ultralight, and moisture/air-permeable; these qualities are due to its highly uniform and interconnected pores and their potential for three-dimensional capillary action. Inset: scanning electron microscope image of the patch’s porous surface. The substrate’s enhanced capabilities also enable the ability to screen-print integrated multifunctional sensors directly onto the substrate surface

TIBI E-skin patch provides advanced healthcare monitoring

The pre-heat ladle at the MPI's Normanton Plant

Steel sludge could be tapped for low carbon hydrogen

A flexible textile supercapacitor patch, created by Drexel University researchers, can power a microcontroller and wirelessly transmit temperature data for nearly two hours without a recharge

Flexible supercapacitor patch adds power to textile wearables

The team’s new sensor makes use of PEDOT-Cl-coated cotton sandwiched between electrodes

New material solves pressure problem in wearable sensors

Images of uncoated (top left, right) and coated (bottom left, right) nylon-6,6 fabrics after nine washing cycles taken by a scanning electron microscope

Coating cuts amount of microplastic fibres entering waterways

Bath aerogel spinout eyes aerospace market

The material contains a layer that can take on two conformations: solid copper that retains most infrared heat, which helps keep the building warm; or a watery solution that emits infrared, which can help cool the building

Building material offers low-energy solution to maintaining temperature