Researchers shine light into muscle to detect instructions for artificial limbs.
Laser testing solar cells
Scientists NPL have developed a new method for detecting defects in solar cells using a technique called ‘compressed sensing’.
Carbon dioxide: from pollution to solution
Researchers show that nanoparticles sputtered onto black silicon nanowire supports activate conversion in a hydrogen atmosphere under solar-simulated light.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – Dec. 2014
This month’s top 5 most read articles from Advanced Optical Materials.
Plasma etching for better vascular grafts
A Montreal-based research group have developed aligned electrospun PET nanofiber mats that mimic the media layer of arteries.
Breakthrough in whispering gallery mode sensors
Researchers have demonstrated free-space laser excitation of whispering gallery modes in vertically suspended oil droplets, recording Q-factors of over 105.
ChemNanoMat opens for submissions
ChemNanoMat is the latest journal to be launched by Wiley-VCH and opened for submissions at the beginning of November.
Electric car with aluminum-air battery can go the distance
Alcoa and Phinergy build a demo car powered by a aluminum-air battery that can greatly extend travel range.
Lanthanide nanoprobes for biomedical applications
Lanthanide(III) complexes have steadily found increasing use in both biosensing and bioimaging due to their advantageous emission properties.
Graphene tubes in electrocatalysis
A group of researchers have developed a new hybrid catalyst technology to reduce oxygen at fuel cell cathodes.