Dr Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy of the University of Reading looks back on the career to date of his friend and mentor Prof. Grigoriy A. Mun.
Book Review: Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
Professor Bengt Fadeel of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet reviews Nanomaterials for Medical Applications by Zoraida Aguilar.
Seeing the wood for the trees: A new technique for the study of biomass pyrolysis
Spatiotemporally resolved diffuse reflectance in situ spectroscopy (STR-DRiSP) reveals the kinetics of biomass pyrolysis.
Useful Uncertainty Causes Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
In a Review Article in the Advanced Materials 25th anniversary series, Nobel Laureate Alan J. Heeger discusses BHJ solar cell operation and how efficiencies can top 20%.
Engineering materials to inhibit the immune response
A research team have coated biomaterial surfaces with a naturally expressed molecule that inhibit the inflammatory activation of immune cells.
Multi-spectral materials in the visible, infrared, and terahertz
The combination of a plasmonic color filter and a terahertz metamaterial absorber exhibits unique resonant phenomena over several decades of wavelengths.
More Insight on Precisely Controlled Polymer Architectures
A themed issue, guest-edited by Jean-François Lutz, Brent Sumerlin, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski highlights new developments in macromolecular engineering.
Todd Siler’s Nano World – Think Billionths of a Meter
Guest writer Professor Geoff Ozin tells us about the inaugural ArtNano show which will be held at The Armory Show, Pier 94, New York, on March 6-9th.
New candidate for interfacial phase-change materials
Researchers combine computational and experimental methods to study novel (SiTe)2(Sb2Te3)n superlattice structures.
January highlights from physica status solidi
Zinc oxide, nanostructures, and magnetic doping – all these in our January’s physics highlights.