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Materials science

April 2024

  • Brian Haywood

    Other lives
    Brian Haywood obituary

  • a bike, a tennis racket, a stone and a ball and graphene

    Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?

December 2023

  • OBserver Business<br>Simon Thomas, CEO and founder of Paragraf. in Cambridgeshire. 16 November 2023

    Observer business profile
    ‘Graphene will change the world’: the boss using the ‘supermaterial’ in the global microchip war

    Simon Thomas knew the periodic table by heart at six. Now the Cambridge firm’s co-founder is putting his scientific brain behind graphene’s power to help us compete with China

October 2023

  • Plumber repairing cistern wearing beige shorts

    Scientists create world’s most water-resistant surface

    Finnish researchers make ‘liquid-like’ outer layer from silicon that could revolutionise household tasks

January 2023

  • Simon Altmann

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    Simon Altmann obituary

    Other lives: Scientist who taught at Oxford University and in his native Buenos Aires

July 2022

  • Rex Harris with his hydrogen-powered canal barge, moored at Birmingham University, 2008

    Other lives
    Rex Harris obituary

    Other lives: Materials scientist at the University of Birmingham whose research was vital to the UK’s green energy and transport revolutions

September 2021

  • Industrial machinery

    How ‘wonder material’ graphene became a national security concern

    UK and China are racing to develop forms of the super-strength technology that has potential aerospace and weaponry uses

June 2021

  • Producing Christmas tree decorations at Biryusinka factory in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Photograph: Kirill Kukhmar/Tass via Getty Images)

    Science Weekly
    Anna Ploszajski: crafting to better understand material science – podcast

    Material science allows us to understand the objects around us mathematically, but there is no formula to describe the sophistication of a handcrafted teacup. Dr Anna Ploszajski is a materials scientist who has travelled all over the UK, meeting makers to better understand her craft and theirs. She spoke to Shivani Dave about what she discovered and documented in her new book, Handmade.

May 2021

  • Cricket

    Not cricket? Scientists suggest bamboo bats are a match for willow

    Researchers create bat with similar performance from what they say is cheap and sustainable material

October 2020

  • As head of materials at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ervine Glenny encouraged his engineers to apply their pioneering work on carbon fibres to other forms of transport

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    Ervine Glenny obituary

    Other lives: Materials engineer whose research helped develop jet engines and lighter aircraft

June 2019

  • Snails

    Reversible superglue proves strong enough to hold average man

    Snail slime-like substance appears to solve problem of weak and reversible or strong and irreversible adhesive

November 2018

  • Paul O’Brien used chemical synthesis to create tiny semiconductor particles called quantum dots.

    Paul O’Brien obituary

    Materials chemist who perfected nanoscientific techniques and enabled important advances in electronics

September 2018

  • Mark Miodownik photographed in his laboratory at University College, London. Mark Miodownik has written a new book called "Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives" which follows his first book "Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World" Mark Andrew Miodownik MBE is a British materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer at University College London. Previously, he was the head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, and a co-founder of Materials Library.

    Science Weekly
    Cross section: Mark Miodownik – Science Weekly podcast

  • mark miodownik playing with red slime in his lab at university college london

    Mark Miodownik: ‘Liquids are not to be trusted’

June 2018

  • The infrared device in action

    Scientists develop thermal camouflage that can fool infrared cameras

    Invention can make an object appear to have the same temperature as its background

May 2018

  • Sir Roger Elliott was a long-serving professor at Oxford University, chief executive of Oxford University Press and vice-president of the Royal Society

    Sir Roger Elliott obituary

    Specialist in theoretical physics who investigated the structure of matter

January 2018

  • An English Angora rabbit

    Notes and queries
    Why has no one invented a clothing material that repels pet hair?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts

December 2017

  • Apple iPhone 6 With A Broken Screen After Being Dropped On The Pavement Rugby Warwickshire<br>EDAMN8 Apple iPhone 6 With A Broken Screen After Being Dropped On The Pavement Rugby Warwickshire

    End of the smashed phone screen? Self-healing glass discovered by accident

    New type of polymer glass that can mend itself when pressed together is in development by University of Tokyo after a student discovered it

August 2017

  • Broken iPhone 6 Plus with a smashed screen

    Circular economy
    Welcome to the future, where your phone can fix its own smashed screen

  • Diego Arraigada’s Brick House, Rosario, Argentina

    Bold, beautiful bricks from Paraguay to Poland – in pictures

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