A unique form of carbon could lower the cost of dye-sensitized solar cells.
Advanced Materials Interfaces: new journal in 2014, now open for submissions!
A new journal from the Advanced Materials family covering all aspects of surface and interface science is launching in early 2014.
Climate Conundrum
Sustainability – solar fuels from the sun, not fossil fuels from the earth.
From carrots to flat-screen TVs: 125 years of liquid crystals
A topical issue of Angewandte Chemie and a GDCh Colloquium in Darmstadt, Germany.
Graphene-polymer composites for barrier applications
Recent research into combining graphene, graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide with polymers for use as barrier materials is reviewed.
Professor Jennifer Lewis: a profile
Jennifer A. Lewis joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Materials.
Book Review: Advanced Thermoforming
Dr Peter Martin, Queen’s University Belfast reviews Advanced Thermoforming: Methods, Machines and Materials, Applications and Automation by Sven Engelmann.
Magnetisation controlled at the picosecond level
A terahertz laser developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute makes it possible to control a material’s magnetisation at a timescale of picoseconds.
New trends in the design of molecularly imprinted nanoparticles
Experts from Michigan Technological University review the recent developments in molecularly imprinted nanoparticles by surface imprinting techniques.
Visible and NIR-responsive polymers for microfabrication
Visible and NIR-photosensitive polymethacrylate copolymers for two photon micropatterning.