Liam Critchley

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Liam Critchley is a science writer who specialises in how chemistry, materials science and nanotechnology interplay with advanced electronic systems. Liam works with media sites, companies, and trade associations around the world and has produced over 900 articles to date, covering a wide range of content types and scientific areas. Beyond his writing, Liam's subject matter knowledge and expertise in the nanotechnology space has meant that he has sat on a number of different advisory boards over the years – with current appointments being on the Matter Inc. and Nanotechnology World Association advisory boards. Liam was also a longstanding member of the advisory board for the National Graphene Association before it folded during the pandemic.
Nanogap Pressure Sensors in Capacitive HMI Technology

Key Thing to Know: Flexible pressure sensors are essential for enabling fine motor control in humanoid robots, but current versions often struggle with interfe

Technical Analysis | 07-04-2025

Extracting Uranium from Seawater for Clean Energy

Key Thing to Know: Uranium in seawater is a vast, untapped resource, with ~4.5 billion tonnes—about 1,000 times more than land-based reserves—but traditional e

Technical Analysis | 04-04-2025

Turning Nanowires into FETs for Next-Gen Electronics

Key Things to Know: Miniaturization of FETs: Engineers are developing ultrathin silicon nanowires (below 30 nm) to create smaller and more efficient field-effe

Technical Analysis | 13-03-2025

Building Dendrite-Free Zinc Batteries for Grid Storage

Key Things to Know: Zinc Flow Batteries as an Alternative: While Li-ion batteries dominate the market, zinc-based batteries—especially zinc polyiodide flow bat

Technical Analysis | 11-03-2025

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Neural Networks Mimic Brain Circuits for AI Advances

Key Things to Know: AI's Learning Limitations – Traditional AI models struggle with catastrophic forgetting, meaning they can't learn new information without e

Technical Analysis | 06-03-2025

Triboelectric Tactile Sensor for Next-Gen AI Robotics Systems

Key Things to Know: Triboelectric Tactile Sensors for Extreme Environments: New multi-modal triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)-based sensors can detect both pr

Technical Analysis | 11-02-2025

How Wildfire Smoke Reduces Solar Energy Generation

Key Things to Know: Expanding Solar Energy: The U.S. aims to increase solar energy’s share in the national grid from 3% to 45% by 2050 as part of its decarboni

Technical Analysis | 04-02-2025

EU Ban on Fossil Fuel Boilers: Energy and Climate Impacts

Key Things to Know: Heat pump adoption, driven by bans on fossil fuel boilers, could reduce primary energy requirements by 12% by 2050, improving overall energ

Technical Analysis | 23-01-2025

Wafer-Scale 2D Perovskite Oxides in Motion Recognition Systems

2D semiconductor materials have shown a lot of promise in advanced optoelectronic systems—such as machine vision, neuromorphic visual systems, and in-sensor computing architecture

Technical Analysis | 10-12-2024