Entrepreneurship in materials: interview with Chris Yakacki founder of shape memory polymer biomedical devices maker Medshape
Month: September 2012
Battery or Bracelet? Cable-Type Flexible Lithium-Ion Batteries
An exceptionally flexible prototype cable-type battery can be used in a variety of shapes towards portable, wearable, and flexible electronics.
A new polymer for medical siRNAs
Researchers have developed PP75, a biodegradable, lipid membrane polymer to improve the clinical potential of small interfering RNAs.
Menschen und ihre Materialien – Von der Steinzeit bis heute
Ob es die Gewinnung der ersten Erze war, die Erfindung des Papiers oder die Synthetisierung moderner Kunststoffe – die Geschichte der Menschheit ist auch die Geschichte der von ihr verwendeten Materialien. Nicht von ungefähr wurden ganze Entwicklungsepochen wie die...
Von Geckos, Garn und Goldwasser
Noch immer kann der Mensch viel von der Natur lernen, das hat sich in jüngster Zeit bestens am Boom der Nanowissenschaften gezeigt. Ob unverschmutzbare Waschbecken, hochwirksame Sonnencreme oder Rechner, die mit dem bloßen Auge gar nicht mehr zu erkennen sind – die...
Artificial Turf With Reduced Skin Abrasion Facilitates Slide Tackles
A new generation of artificial turfs offers better skin friendliness and also improved material properties.
New reagent for multiphoton lithography greatly extends available shapes
A new MPL reagent, which its creators dub “protogel”, is allowing researchers to create exciting new 3D microstructures.
Sticky Teeth: Improving Dental Adhesives
A new form of dental adhesives, containing bisphosphonate and bisphosponic acid, improves the ability to etch enamel and increases stability in water.
Organic semiconductors – accelerating pace
Henning Sirringhaus, Tomo Sakanoue, and Jui-Fen Chang discuss the physics governing electronic transport in high-mobility organic semiconductors.
Large-Area Low-Cost Gold Nanostructures through Colloidal Nanolithography
Double split-ring resonators with optimized Fano resonances for refractive index sensing could be realised by hole-mask colloidal nanolithography.
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