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

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
Energy & environment

Flexible supercapacitor patch adds power to textile wearables

The 'digital foot' could be used to develop more sophisticated bionic limbs
Medical & healthcare

Digital foot could enhance neuroprosthetics

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

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
Energy & environment

Coating cuts amount of microplastic fibres entering waterways

Aerospace

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
Energy & environment

Building material offers low-energy solution to maintaining temperature

Automotive

UK could become ‘an industrial irrelevance’ without EV investment warn industry experts

Sensors

Ultrasonic sensors identify diversions in gas pipelines

Policy & business

UK witnessing R&D offshoring exodus

Energy & environment

Fresh cash injection for UK battery research projects

Twistrons, made from spun CNTs, convert mechanical movement into electricity. Scanning electron microscope images show how UT Dallas researchers made a new kind of twistron by intertwining three individual strands of spun carbon nanotube fibres to make a single yarn, similar to the way conventional yarns used in textiles are constructed. A previous version of a harvester (right) was made by coiling the CNT fibres. The scale bars indicate 100 micrometres
Energy & environment

Carbon nanotube ‘twistrons’ harvest mechanical energy to generate electricity