The one-day workshop on HIP (Hot Isosatic Pressing) processing of materials for aggressive environments attracted an impressively large, international audience.
Technology Networks is an ERDF funded project that offers places on study tours and placements to European centres of excellence to share good practice, develop collaborations and receive vital guidance on research and development.
Researchers in the Republic of Korea have overcome the obstacles in current methods of fabricating metal nanodot arrays with dot sizes of less than 100nm, which have applications in solar panels and data storage.
China can now boast more materials science papers than any other
country, but as we move into 2012, just how far advanced is research and
development? Eoin Redahan finds out.
A collaborative group of scientists at Bath, Birmingham and Warwick
universities are looking into new solid electrolytes that work at
temperatures of ~500-700ºC, spurring growing interest in
new apatite-type silicates and germanates.
The ability of small businesses to borrow money is a key to economic growth, particularly in manufacturing and engineering. Government plans are in place to increase lending to businesses, but it is being questioned whether greater credit availability is actually allowing companies to borrow more.
