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Ionoptika's J105 machine

World first facility to offer unprecedented insights into materials

Comment: Using should-cost modelling strategies to absorb rising costs

The thermoplastic polymer printer is designed to print large parts

UMaine breaks record for world’s largest polymer 3D printer

Six Airlander aircraft proposed for rural Scotland  

Comment: Brute force can not solve autonomy challenge

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’

Mandate sets 2030 date for use of sustainable aviation fuel

Blog: Environmental sustainability is key to inspiring more young people into engineering careers

NPL's optical stabilising reference cavity was developed for the European Space Agency (ESA) and is designed to lock laser frequency for future high-precision space instruments. The cavity acts like a tuning fork and prevents a laser from drifting.

NPL working with ESA to SWAP all the clocks

Airbus Helicopters’ Racer takes first flight

Capacitors with stratified 2D nanofillers embedded in the polymer matrix

High-energy-density capacitor promises multiple applications

An ivory object, assumed to be of Asian elephant origin, under the microscope inside a Renishaw in via Raman microspectrometer

Raman spectroscopy differentiates legal and illegal ivory