The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers are accepting
applications for their 2012 Venture Prize. The Royal Society are also accepting nominations for a range of awards.
Laws on the sale of scrap metal in the UK are likely to be changed in order to combat metal theft. Sellers could be made to provide dealers with proof of identity and there may even be a ban on cash payments.
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.
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.
Winners of the IOM3 2011 Special and Publication Awards were presented with their medals and prizes at an Awards Lunch at the Institute's London office
Delegates at the Royal Academy of
Engineering in London, UK, debated whether we should be concerned about the future global
supply of strategic materials.
Cambridge University has released a diagram that illustrates the
consumption of raw materials by people in the UK, using the number of people that could be sculpted from a
material to demonstrate how much we all use each year.
The Brunel Centre for
Advanced Solidification Technology, a Specialist
Research Institute at Brunel University, is to host an international symposium marking
50 years of achievement and innovation in solidification and casting.
