Materials Congress 2010 – Materials for Extreme Environments and
Times is inviting papers until 31 March. To be held from 20-23
September in Kuala Lumpur, the technical programme will explore materials and processes that can meet industry and society demand.
A solar-powered implant could give sight to the blind, according to its developers at Stanford University, USA. Miniature photovoltaic (PV) cells are being used to power a chip placed behind the retina to process light and data through the eye to the brain.
State-of-the-art EPSRC manufacturing research centres will be based at
Southampton, Loughborough and Brunel universities, as part of a £70m
Government investment.
Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology publishes, both in print and online, high quality innovative research on the generation, properties and applications of bubbles in the life and physical sciences, engineering and medicine.
Professor Mohan Edirisinghe, Dr Eleanor Stride and Uthumanku Farook of University College London, UK, have won the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Journal of the Royal Society Interface Award for their research on controlled microbubble preparation.
A polymer that combines drug-eluting and self-cleansing agents could reduce the risk of bacterial infection through urinary catheters, say researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
Rochelle O’Hara from Queens University, Northern Ireland, has won this year's
Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition with a presentation covering the development
of an injectable medical material for spinal repair.
