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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

Automotive

Cold winds for UK auto but EVs offer hope

Quantum satellite communications to be developed by the TeQuantS project
Aerospace

Thales Alenia Space to lead space-to-Earth quantum comms technologies project

Energy & environment

Companies falling short on climate pledges, survey finds

Automotive

Driver seat ‘avatar’ could improve F1 racing seats

Haemostatic microneedle technology can be applied like a typical adhesive bandage to quickly stop bleeding
Medical & healthcare

Microneedle patch quickly puts a stop to haemorrhaging