Advanced materials

A safer, greener material for conserving waterlogged wooden artefacts, such as those recovered from Henry VIII’s ship Mary Rose, could preserve...

A new class of low-cost polymer materials, which can carry electric charge with almost no losses despite their seemingly random structure, could lead...

Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available models, could be made...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed advanced molecular ‘sieves’ which could be used to filter carbon dioxide and other...

A flexible display incorporating graphene in its pixels’ electronics has been successfully demonstrated by the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic...

Holograms made of tiny particles of silver could double the amount of information that can be stored in digital optical devices, such as sensors...

Method can produce strong, lightweight materials with specific surface properties.

Colourful LEDs made from a material known as perovskite could lead to LED displays which are both cheaper and easier to manufacture in future.