Advanced materials

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.

This alien glob is a piece of gum arabic from the hardened sap of the Acacia tree, most likely collected from a tree in Sudan. Rox Middleton explains...

New record for a trapped field in a superconductor, beating a record that has stood for more than a decade, could herald the arrival of materials in...