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Feature on the Material and Design Exchange website

August 18, 2017

My work was recently featured on the MaDE website as I completed a workshop for them. I was asked to do a brief write up of my work as part of supporting the MaDE magazine relaunch project. Check out...

New Material Can Turn Light, Heat, And Movement Into Electricity All At Once

James Burchill

March 16, 2017

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Scientists from the University of Oulu have discovered a new material that is capable of turning different types of energy into electricity. (more…)...

This ‘electronic skin’ turns your body into a LED screen

James Burchill

April 19, 2016

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If smartwatches and fitness trackers are the best we can do when it comes to wearables, stop the planet, I want off. Jupiter looks better anyway. But wait, I can turn my skin into an actual LED display? (mor...

Invisible Solar Cells That Could Power Skyscrapers

James Burchill

March 22, 2016

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Silicon Valley startup Ubiquitous Energy is making the world’s first transparent solar cells, a technology that could greatly expand the reach of solar power. Their technology is an invisible film that can go o...

Dutch researchers have created flexiramics flexible ceramics for circuit boards

James Burchill

January 28, 2016

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Flexiramics looks and bends like paper tissue, but it's fireproof and non-conducting. (more…)...

Stretchable, transparent heater made from metallic glass

James Burchill

January 8, 2016

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Flexible, transparent and conductive this innovation uses metallic glass to provide an entirely new material option. Metal glass is a tricky thing, often associated with high costs and fiddly production researc...

‘Sewing’ with molten glass and maths

James Burchill

January 5, 2016

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US researchers design a "molten glass sewing machine" by combining 3D printing of glass with a mathematical model of the looping liquid threads. (more…)...