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The project will demonstrate battery cells produced with recovered cathode active materials

Battery recycling project aims to provide sustainable source of materials for EV batteries

Fluorok co-founders Veronique Gouverneur & Gabriele Pupo

Oxford chemicals spinout Fluorok raises £7.7m

A tube in the self-locked position

Curved-crease origami inspires self-locking flat-packed tubular structures

Gipave has improved stiffness and resistance to rutting compared to conventional asphalt

National Highways trialling graphene-enhanced asphalt

The architecture resists crack propagation and toughens the material

Human bone inspires tougher cement

Stretchy wearable electronic device developed at University of Washington

Super stretchy wearable converts body heat to electricity

About 550 people are diagnosed with osteosarcoma in the UK each year

Bioactive glasses combined with gallium for potential bone cancer treatment

By integrating cellulose into the silk-based fibrils that could be formed into a thin membrane, and then tuning the electrical charge of the cellulose, the researchers produced a material that was highly effective at removing contaminants in lab tests. Pictured is an example of the filter

Silk and cellulose membrane filters PFAS from water

Robots supply the precision and reliability needed to implement the design

Robotics and additive manufacturing produce tougher concrete

Researchers at Swansea University, in collaboration with Wuhan University of Technology, Shenzhen University, have developed a pioneering technique for producing large-scale graphene current collectors

Graphene foil promises to thwart thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries

Comment: EV sector must have a localised battery supply chain

Xampla partners with Lehmann Ingredients on vitamin protection