• Scientists Create the Largest Atomically Thin Gold Films to Make Electronics Weightless and Invisible

    Updated: 2025-01-20 03:50:00
    XPANCEO, a deep tech company developing the next generation of computing through its first smart contact lenses, in collaboration with Nobel laureate Konstantin S. Novoselov (University of Manchester, National University of Singapore), has developed an innovative method for producing biocompatible, transparent, ultrathin gold films with no area restriction.

  • Mechanisms of Epitaxial Growth of Hexagonal Boron Nitride

    Updated: 2025-01-17 15:03:00
    Understanding hBN epitaxial growth on Ru(0001) through DFT and microkinetic modeling highlights key mechanisms and the impact of substrate temperature.

  • Sustainable Future for Carbon Nanotubes

    Updated: 2025-01-15 13:33:00
    Rice University researchers reveal carbon nanotube fibers can be fully recycled, maintaining structure and properties, advancing sustainability in materials.

  • The world of business R&D (and the UK’s place in that world)

    Updated: 2025-01-14 21:12:27
    Most research and development (R&D) in the world is done in universities or research institutes, but by businesses – big businesses can do more R&D than medium size countries. A useful snapshot of this world is provided by the 2024 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, which came out in December. The scoreboard lists the top … Continue reading "The world of business R&D (and the UK’s place in that world)"

  • Ten years of banging on about productivity

    Updated: 2024-12-29 21:43:30
    An advantage of having a long-running blog like this one, which is now twenty years old, is that it gives me an easy way of checking out some of the topics that were most exercising me at various points in the past. But it’s still a bit of a shock to realise that it’s been … Continue reading "Ten years of banging on about productivity"

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