Materials World resources

A European project is seeking to produce polyolefin-coated fabrics for transporting fresh water by sea.

A University of Edinburgh, UK, start-up E.V.A. Biosystems is developing 'selectively degradable plastics'.

A novel composite material reportedly combines two previously incompatible properties – high stiffness and high damping capacity.

A single-layer approach to protective coatings for turbine engines could increase efficiency while also simplifying the manufacturing process.

A spin-out company from the University of Manchester, UK, reports to have extracted lithium carbonate from UK brines with more than 99.5% purity.

A passive cooling device for solar cells has been designed to work using only gravity.

A soft, silicone, non-electric touchpad could offer solutions in MRI machines, advanced prosthetic hands and movement aids used for rehabilitation post-surgery.

Researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, have made progress towards realising miniature soft batteries for biomedical applications

Finding ways to keep warm are central to some of the oldest tales about human survival.

Rejuvenating mining education in the UK.

Cornwall’s potential to supply a domestic source of lithium

The contradictions at play in sand mining.

A flower-shaped 3D microelectrode array could help achieve breakthroughs in the study of neurological diseases.

Catching up with Lucy England MIMMM on 25 years in mining.