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The August edition of Materials Inside focusses on hybrid and electric vehicles. We decided to head back to the BTCC and record the episode live by the trackside. Mark Daniels presents, interviewing Steve Brady and Peter Riches.

Microporous copper foam coated with a thin, hard layer of copper oxide provides outstanding performance as a low-profile heat sink in passive cooling environments.

The underlying microporous copper foam structure of the heat sinks has pore sizes between 300 and 600 microns and a relative density of around 37%, providing a much higher surface area than traditional copper foams. The black copper oxide that coats the interconnected pores of the thermally conductive copper foam dramatically increases emissivity and therefore passive cooling performance.

Over the decades, the automotive industry has come a long way. From maximum speeds and high-tech interiors to sustainable fuel alternatives. In this article, we’re going to be focusing on the materials that drive the industry. 

To cover the fundamentals of materials science, first, let’s establish, “what is materials science?”. The University of Oxford describes the term as an interdisciplinary subject, spanning the physics and chemistry of matter, engineering applications and industrial manufacturing processes. The field also covers the design and discovery of new materials, as well as forensic engineering and failure analysis. 

The Materials Inside podcast has recently had a facelift, with a new focus on bringing you industry insights, insider knowledge, and the materials expertise of the Goodfellow team.

Our team is the beating heart of the company. Every employee brings something unique to the table and makes their own impact on Goodfellow’s overall success. Our Meet the Team series shines a light on our individuals, celebrating what they do for the company and who they are outside the business. This week, we’re speaking to Dr Aphrodite Tomou.

Our team is the beating heart of the company. Every employee brings something unique to the table and makes their own impact on Goodfellow’s overall success. Our Meet the Team series shines a light on our individuals, celebrating what they do for the company and who they are outside the business. This week, we’re speaking to Adam Sells.

Vanadium is one of the transition metals on the periodic table, rarely existing naturally in its native state. Vanadium can often be found in deposits of coal, petroleum and phosphate rock and can also be found in a combined state in nearly 65 different minerals including Magnetite, Vanadinite, Carnotite and Patronite.

Vitreous Carbon, otherwise known as “Glassy Carbon”, is a non-graphitising carbon and comes in many forms. In fact, Carbon can take on so many different appearances, properties or morphologies, you might go as far as to say it’s something of a shapeshifter. So, apart from its shifter superpower, what else do we know about it?