Adrian Thompson

Controlling Environmental Pollutants with Heterogeneous Catalysts

Protecting Recycled Concrete with Microbial Cultures

Concrete production weighs heavy on the environment, responsible for around 50% of overall waste generated worldwide.

A Novel Powder for Rapid Wound Healing

Ensuring adequate, safe and efficient wound care is a challenging task which places considerable burdens on both patients and healthcare systems.

Reducing Counterfeiting with Nanostructured Thin Films

As the amount of counterfeit goods increases, it is necessary to innovate new ways of applying effective and adjustable tagging in an affordable manner. New research in the journal Applied Nano may offer a solution.

How Can Smart, Conductive Textiles Be Used?

Recent advances in intelligent textiles, device miniaturization and the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) have led to an increase in demand for innovative means of incorporating electrical features into textile-based materials such as conductive fibers, fabrics, yarns and even finished goods.

What is the Potential of Antimicrobial Nanofiber?

Exciting new research published in the Journal of Functional Biomaterials aims to review, summarize and chart the future potential of multifunctional polymeric nanofibers in helping to address the issue of antibiotic resistance.

Nanotechnology Accelerating Biofuel Production

A recent review published in the journal Catalysts aims to summarize and highlight some of the current and potential uses of nanoparticles in biofuel production, exploring some of their current applications, challenges, and potential advances.

Analysis of Impact of Green Roofs on Residential Building Cooling Energy Demand

A recent study by Cynthia Permata Dewi and Putri Adhitana Paramitha published in AIP Conference Proceedings explores the use of green roof solutions as part of a passive design strategy in residential buildings.

Volcanic Deposits as Aggregates of Green Lightweight Concrete

A new study published in AIP Conference Proceedings explores a novel approach to utilize eruptive deposits in construction materials, aiming to leverage these deposits’ unique properties to help create both fine and coarse aggregate destined for use in green structural lightweight concretes.

Profiling Shipwrecks with X-Rays

New research published in Matter - a new journal for ground-breaking multi-disciplinary materials sciences research - has showcased the work of a team of scientists who have utilized novel X-ray analysis techniques to identify products in the wood of shipwrecks that had previously been undetected.