Diamond is a material known by everyone for its beauty and value as a jewel. Outside of jewelry, diamond has a different value due to its hardness, and is often used on drill-tips and in other mechanical tooling.
By Liam Critchley
9 Mar 2020
Brain implants serve several purposes. By stimulating, recording or blocking neural signals, brain implants can be used to assist scientific and medical research.
By Sarah Moore
9 Mar 2020
Experimental interest into nanoparticles has maintained its momentum over recent decades, with scientists discovering more about their unique properties, how they can be used in a growing number of applications, and developing advanced techniques for producing these particles.
By Sarah Moore
6 Mar 2020
Biometrics are a hot topic. New methods of identifying individuals are developing at an ever-increasing pace and biometric data, whether that might be facial, iris or even speech recognition are all being used to fight fraud, protect data or even track criminal or terrorist activity.
By Stephen Edgar
6 Mar 2020
Much of today’s modern technology relies on heat transfer to function. Devices and systems within the fields of air conditioning, power generation, microelectronics, transportation, and more, utilize the action of heat transfer in their functioning.
By Sarah Moore
6 Mar 2020
Diamond-like carbon coatings (DLCs) held, and continue to hold, great promise for the improvement in friction and wear resistance of engine parts.
Nanolubricants can be used for thermal engineering. Enhancing the tribological performance of nanoparticle-based lubricants has been a challenge for years, but recent developments have enabled advances.
Solar energy is slowly becoming a bigger part of energy production around the world; however, solar power technology hasn't reached the point of efficiency to make it a dominant form of energy production.
For many decades, titanium and titanium alloys have been used to develop various medical applications due to their unique characteristics of strength, biocompatibility, resistance to the effects of body fluids, flexibility, and resistance to corrosion.
By Sarah Moore
3 Feb 2020
A new generation of dental restorative materials is being developed thanks to advancements in nanotechnology.
By Sarah Moore
3 Feb 2020