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Battery Report 2024: What’s the Solid-State of Affairs?
Niles Beadman - February 11, 2025

Battery Report 2024: What’s the Solid-State of Affairs?

The Volta Foundation have recently released the 2024 edition of their annual Battery Report. These ...

Battery Manufacturing: Funding the Future
Niles Beadman - October 7, 2024

Battery Manufacturing: Funding the Future

In September, the US Department of Energy announced the latest round of funding to electrify the ...

Invention Capture: 5 Steps to Success - Transforming Technology to Patent Protection
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Invention Capture: 5 Steps to Success - Transforming Technology to Patent Protection

Invention capturing, also referred to as invention harvesting or invention mining, is the start of ...

Superconductor sparks excitement, but meets resistance
Niles Beadman - August 8, 2023

Superconductor sparks excitement, but meets resistance

The last few weeks have seen the rise of an unlikely social media star – the claimed ...

Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the UKIPO’s “Green Channel”
Jacqueline Murphy - July 18, 2023

Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the UKIPO’s “Green Channel”

We are pleased to launch our latest report Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the ...

Faraday Battery Challenge: Funding the Future
Niles Beadman - February 21, 2023

Faraday Battery Challenge: Funding the Future

Michael Faraday uncovered the link between electricity and magnetism, built the first electric ...

Recycl-ink: innovations in ink recycling
Niles Beadman - May 3, 2022

Recycl-ink: innovations in ink recycling

Efforts to improve recyclability are typically focused on high volume, bulk materials like plastic ...

Plastic-fuelled fungi
Niles Beadman - September 28, 2021

Plastic-fuelled fungi

The “circular economy” is often seen as the ultimate goal for the recycling industry. Converting ...

Printed pills: a new dimension for medicine
Niles Beadman - July 20, 2021

Printed pills: a new dimension for medicine

Three dimensional (3D) printing is the latest buzzword ricocheting through high-tech industries and ...

Circular economy of tyres: the end is just the beginning
Niles Beadman - February 16, 2021

Circular economy of tyres: the end is just the beginning

Our reliance on tyres and their ubiquity in modern mobility makes them a high priority target for ...

Tyres: the secret polluter
Niles Beadman - February 1, 2021

Tyres: the secret polluter

Automotive emissions are a hot topic, but increased regulation coupled with industry-wide ...

Antimicrobial resistance: experience vs. experts
Niles Beadman - January 26, 2021

Antimicrobial resistance: experience vs. experts

Oxford University have announced the launch of a world-leading institute to fight antimicrobial ...

Circular tyres: a new challenge for the circular economy
Niles Beadman - October 6, 2020

Circular tyres: a new challenge for the circular economy

Tyres are huge. Globally over 2.2 billion tyres are produced a year – and this is expected to rise ...

Battery electrolytes: the latest graphene composites
Niles Beadman - September 4, 2020

Battery electrolytes: the latest graphene composites

Storage of electrical energy is now an essential part of our lives. Charging and discharging ...

Smart tyres: under pressure to get smarter
Niles Beadman - July 23, 2020

Smart tyres: under pressure to get smarter

For the past 175 years, the bulk of tyre innovation has focused on improving the structure and ...

Patents driving tyre innovation
Niles Beadman - June 15, 2020

Patents driving tyre innovation

From the outside, tyres appear unassumingly simple. But below the tread, they are deceptively ...

A Taste for Waste – Plastic Recycling with Enzymes
Niles Beadman - April 17, 2020

A Taste for Waste – Plastic Recycling with Enzymes

Positive news has been relatively hard to come by of late, with attention understandably focussed ...

Chemical collaborations: polymer partnerships
Niles Beadman - February 26, 2020

Chemical collaborations: polymer partnerships

Collaboration is ubiquitous with successful research. Sharing results generates new leads, sharing ...

Printing the unprintable – new technique expands graphene printing to previously unsuitable substrates
Niles Beadman - October 30, 2019

Printing the unprintable – new technique expands graphene printing to previously unsuitable substrates

Printing with graphene is a large and growing field, representing a highly promising range of ...

Consumable consumables: the edible water bottle
Niles Beadman - October 9, 2019

Consumable consumables: the edible water bottle

Throughout the 20th century, plastic has become increasingly prevalent in our everyday lives. To ...

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