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Materials

Virtuous circle: igus gives energy chains a new lease of life

Waste glass improves insulating properties of concrete

Project aims for acoustic metamaterials in personal audio

Loughborough team optimises topology to promote bone growth

The fabricated smart windows are shown in both states, showing that the transmitted visible light changes very little (Image: Youngblood Photonics Lab)

Film-coating gives windows temperature control

Image credit: istockphoto

Robotic platform speeds up directed evolution

‘Smart’ food packaging keeps fruit fresh

The Engineer Talks EP18: understanding thermal runaway

Image from Adobestock

Sheffield sets sights on sustainable steel and cement

CASB system uses carbon as energy source

Image credit: NTU Singapore

NTU team develops energy saving glass

Thermally actuated soft-robots (Image: Shuang Wu)

Soft-robots snap into action with thermal actuators