SGL Carbon’s porous reactors can synthesize hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids and destroy pollutants in industrial waste gases.
Month: December 2011
Opening a new window: improving biological spectroscopy
Label-free imaging of atherosclerotic plaques is achieved by an optical window between 1600-1850 nm for bond-selective deep tissue imaging.
A New Look for Steel Research International
Steel Research International, one of the oldest metallurgical and materials engineering journals, gets a new look.
Shrilk: A Chimera of Chitosan and Fibroin for Biodegradable Plastics
A laminar composite of two common biomaterials – shrimp shells and silk – could be useful for packaging and biomedical applications.
Remote controlled nanoparticles deliver the goods
Iron oxide nanoparticles can be used to provide a local source of heating in a thermoresponsive sol–gel copolymer solution.
Seeking Candidates for Porous Burners
The benefits of porous burner technology are amazing, but many materials science problems remain to be solved.
Luminescent Solar Concentrators – The Search for Photovoltaic Windows
Luminescent solar concentrators might hold the key to turning everyday building components into energy-generating devices.
Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine – Free Access
The complex requirements of modern medicine demand a variety of multifunctional materials. Polymers provide a versatile toolbox for such materials. Hydrolytically degradable polymers show temporal changes of mechanical properties during degradation and controlled drug...
Polymers for Anion Recognition and Sensing
New work highlights the unique effects that arise from incorporation of anion-binding moieties into polymeric systems.
Thermally Stable Dendronized Polymers
Researchers from the ETH Zurich present a novel synthesis method that leads to thermally stable dendronized polymers with aromatic dendrons.
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