All Materials articles – Page 8
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News
Rechargeable first for promising battery tech
New cathode material makes for energetic, rechargeable sodium–carbon dioxide batteries that could power Mars vehicles
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Smart bandages you press for antibacterial action
Only releasing antibacterials when needed leave bacteria with no time to adapt
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Experiment with the Vikings
A comprehensive collection of activities to incorporate science into your Vikings lessons. Topics include everyday life; weapons and warfare; travel and trade; and how modern day archaeologists use science to investigate Viking life.
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Semi-conductivity between the sheets
Manipulating layers delivers the first MXene semiconductor
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Squid beak insight for new material
Lightweight organic composite with tuneable properties mimics cephalopod beak
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Magnificent molecules
Zirconium tungstate
Neil Withers investigates a compound with some unusual and unexpected behaviour
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Boron nitride composites stronger than their carbon cousins
Binding strengths of polymer–boron nitride nanotubes are higher than those reported for carbon nanotubes
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Polymer takes the heat out of batteries
Polymer electrode coating may help prevent lithium battery fires
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Making biodiesel │14–16 years
Practical work on a) making a biodiesel and b) comparing it to fossil diesel, as well as a comprehension exercise, and a team exercise
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Conducting polymers and shape memory polymers │16–18 years
Worksheets on conducting polymers and shape changing polymers
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Conducting plastics and shape changing polymers │14–16 years
Comprehension exercises that revise many basic ideas from chemistry and approach them from a novel perspective
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Feature
The lignin challenge
Elinor Hughes investigates how scientists are hoping to use biomass waste to produce valuable chemicals
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Roman glass and its chemistry
Roman glass is found all over the Roman Empire, but how different is it?
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Which Compound? Which Route?
This exercise leads students through the decision-making process when choosing which new drug substance to make and the best synthetic route.
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News
Trapped nanoparticles for 'wet' computing
Information stored and retrieved in colloidal particles
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Graphene: future applications
A video that explores different types of carbon, looking in particular at graphene and its uses. Also, learn how to make your own solar cell, answer questions from the allotropes of carbon gridlock game, and read an anecdote about the discovery of buckminsterfullerene. Video: Graphene future applications ...
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Prehistoric pigments
What pigments were used for cave painting and where did they come from?