Bright Green
Bright Green is an awesome preserved moss where all the water has been replaced with glycine so it does not decompose. (more…)...
Schott Xensation
Schott's glass is flexible, highly scratch resistant glass which a competitor of Corning's more well known Gorilla Glass. (more…)...
Phase change fabric
Phase change materials can manipulate heat in really special way. They slowly absorb heat feeling unnaturally cool on the skin and then slowly release that heat as it cools down. (more…)...
Luminoso
Luminoso is a really satisfying material to behold, the light punching through the apparently solid wood grabs your attention immediately. I really recommend you watch the video on this page to see it in action...
Expanding the material library
Yesterday was a fun day, my friends over at the Materials Council dropped off the materials Library they have been preparing for Brunel. I felt like a kid at Christmas getting to open my toys. (more…)...
Surface Design Show
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Surface Design Show, the event was great, there where plenty of people with new materials to talk to and I got my hands on a few awesome samples.
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Plastics that heal themselves?
How can a material heal itself back to it's original state, fixing scratches and sealing small holes? Well for some polymers it all comes down to a bit of carbon (more…)...
Coffee based materials
So for a while I worked packing freshly roasted coffee beans into kilogram bags. After packing my ten thousandth kilo it was fair to say that the amount of coffee the world consumes had sunk in. (more…)...
Ferrofluid
Oil impregnated with tiny iron fillings, reacts to the presence of electrical currents by attaching to the magnetic field and becoming more viscous. (more…)...