Materials Science

Colourful intertwined layers looking end on Image by Jerryyaar Designer from Pixabay

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Material Science is the study of the properties and uses of materials. Without appropriate appropriate materials revolutions in other subjects, whether engineering or Art, just could not happen. That is true in computer science and electronic engineering as much as other subjects. Know your stuff and you may just be able to do something revolutionary.

Engineering a cloak of invisibility with meta-materials

Colourful fractured glass effect image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

You pull a cloak around you and disappear! Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak is surely magic that science can’t match. Even in Harry Potter’s world it takes powerful magic to make it work. Turns out even that kind of magic can be done with a combination of materials science and computer science…(read on)

This quantum message will self-destruct in 10 seconds

A fuse burning

Mission Impossible involved the team taking on impossible missions, delivered by a message concluding with the famous line “This message will self-destruct in 10 seconds”. Now, it is possible to actually do the apparently impossible: to send holographic messages that the sender can just make disappear even after they have been sent… (read on)

Gutta-percha: how a tree started a global telecom revolution

Obscure plants and animals can turn out to be surprisingly useful. The tree Gutta-percha kick-started the worldwide telecoms boom of the 19th century that ultimately led to the creation of global networks including the Internet…(read on)

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