Advanced materials

This image shows a ‘forest’ of carbon nanotubes – thousands upon thousands of tiny rolls of carbon atoms, grown on a scrap of copper foil. James...

Wood is one of the oldest building materials but its use is limited by its properties. With new funding, researchers aim to stretch these properties...

The ability to design, control and build new materials at the level of individual atoms could open up a whole new world of electronic devices.

In this video we see an electron gun made of many thousands of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, each more than 1,000 times smaller than the width...

A breakthrough has been made in identifying the origin of superconductivity in high-temperature superconductors, which has puzzled researchers for...

What links legendarily sharp Damascene swords of the past with flexible electronics and high-performance electrical wiring of the future? They all...

Intensely coloured low-cost films made from cellulose could be used in place of toxic dyes, or to detect counterfeit materials.

Developing advanced materials is only part of the journey that leads to new technologies – we also need to manufacture them with ultra precision. The...