Manufacturing

Vertical farms nailed tiny salads. Now they need to feed the world

Wired UK: Gartenfeld Island, in Berlin’s western suburb of Spandau, was once the bellows of Germany’s industrial revolution. It hosted Europe’s first high-rise factory and, until World War II, helped make Berlin, behind London and New York, the third-largest city on…

Nanowire-filled film makes excellent electromagnetic shield

E&T Magazine: Researchers from the University of California-Riverside have demonstrated a flexible polymer film which combines electromagnetic shielding with electrical isolation. The University of California engineers developed a film which uses a quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterial filler. The result is an excellent electromagnetic…

Kagome graphene reveals exciting properties

Materials Today: Researchers around the world are searching for new synthetic materials with special properties such as superconductivity — that is, conducting electric current without resistance. These new substances are an important step in the development of highly energy-efficient electronics, and…

‘Green steel’: the race to clean up one of the world’s dirtiest industries

Financial Times: Skyscrapers and bridges, cars and cruise ships, guns and washing machines. All have one thing in common: steel. As a key input for engineering and construction, it is…