Nano-based Drilling Fluids: A Game Changer for Oil and Gas Drilling?
It seems counterintuitive how big advancements in engineering, medicine, chemistry, and other sciences are brought upon…
The Secret Life of Nanomaterials: Unveiling the Quirks of the Nanoworld
From the size of rockets to the height of skyscrapers and magnitude of gigafactories, technological and…
Blue Energy: How Nanomaterials Can Trigger off a New Source of Energy
When you want to disgorge a cucumber, you sprinkle it with salt. In this way, we…
Graceful Failures: Designing Sacrificial Components
A sacrificial component is a part that is designed to fail in order to protect either…
Colonising Mars: Materials Needed for Extraterrestrial Living
We once thought extraterrestrial Martians will come for Earth, but it’s turning out to be the…
Ceramics in Space: From Reusable Heat Shields to Cloaks of Invisibility
Ceramics were used to create art and various kinds of dishes for thousands of years. Today,…
Perovskites: From Today’s Electronics to Tomorrow’s Photovoltaics
Even if you have never heard of a perovskite, you rely on them every day. Practically…
Stay Safe and Steady with Aluminium-based Winter Sports Gear
Planning a getaway trip to the mountains this holiday season? You have your climbing equipment, your…
Engineering the Ideal Tinfoil Hat: Material Selection and EM Shielding
Suppose, hypothetically, you were a conspiracy theorist who believed in the Illuminati, malevolent aliens, lizard people,…
Christmas Is Here: Gather Around for a Story of Our Matmatch Family Member
With the festive season just around the corner, our attention turns to our families and loved…
Raw Materials of the Arctic: What’s Below the Melting Ice?
The Arctic is feeling the most extreme effects of global warming, and it may soon be…
Quasicrystals – Materials That Should Not Exist
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the…
Asteroid Mining – Science Fiction or Solution to Rare Metal Shortage?
The infancy of a space industry This may sound like science fiction, but since at least…