Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers.

Imagine a bendable tablet computer or an electronic newspaper that could fold to fit in a pocket.

Meeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets. One promising material for a potential new generation of recording media is an alloy of iron and platinum with an ordered crystal structure. Researchers have now found a convenient way to make these alloys and tailor their properties.

These days, aerospace engineering is all about the light stuff: building airplanes with lighter wings, fuselage and landing gear in an effort to reduce fuel costs. Advanced carbon-fibre composites have been used in recent years to lighten planes’ loads. These materials can match aluminum and titanium in strength but at a fraction of the weight, and can be found in aircraft like the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380, reducing such jets’ weight by 20 per cent.

Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland.

The College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow is pleased to announce that funded places are available to students domiciled in Scotland and the EU, for its MSc Nanoscience and Nanotechnology programme within the School of Engineering, commencing September 2013.

LONDON & TALLINN – 26 March 2013. FPI Innovation Fund LP, (“FPI”), the seed and venture capital fund targeting high return investments in the scientific, engineering and entrepreneurial sectors, announced it has attracted and arranged a co-­‐investment of €10m into ANF Technology, the producer of NAFEN™, the first ever superior grade  aluminum oxide nano fiber to be produced at commercially viable industrial volumes.

The University of Manchester launched a £50,000 enterprise competition for students with new graphene ideas at a staff event attended by more than 500 people.

Scientists at Nottingham University are using new funding to engineer nanotechnology that could transform the global healthcare industry.

Nanologica leverages its carrier materials to play a key part in the four-year EU project, ORCHID. Led by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the €10 million project aims to discover and develop new medicines against multiple drug resistant tuberculosis.