Materials World resources

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.

Shortages in sand supply and environmental impacts.

An MIT team has made 3D-printed glass bricks that can disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure.

Calcium hydroxide – a zero-carbon precursor for lime and, subsequently, cement – is being billed as the solution to decarbonise cement production.

Metal extraction, alloying and processing have been merged into a single step by Max Planck scientists in Germany.