Due to their unique properties these fascinating materials are predicted to possess a complete photonic bandgap without any long-range order.
Introducing Advanced Materials Interfaces
The first issue of Advanced Materials Interfaces has been published.
Switched on when needed – the word of latent catalysts
Latent catalysts allow for controlling the onset of polymerization exactly where and when needed.
How to Prevent Dewetting of Liquid Thin Films?
A network of polymer crystalline fibrils generated in situ during spin-coating suppresses effectively dewetting of the diluted polymer solution.
Chemical modification of polymers – from vulcanization to controlled degradation
Macromolecular Reaction Engineering has published a special issue on chemically modified and functionalized polymers.
Easy and cheap fabrication gives brilliant OFET performance
Researchers use C12-BTBT and a simple, cheap and easily up-scalable method to provide outstanding OFET performance.
NIST publishes new standards for bioscaffolds based on cell shapes
Scientists create method to classify how cells are shaped in different environments.
Fabricating integrated circuits from functionalised oxides
A collaboration between researchers in the US and Germany produces monolithically integrated logic circuits in NMOS-technology.
A week in the materials industry: February 11th 2014
A roundup of news from the past week in the materials science industry.
Europewide challenge to Moore's law begins
New pan-european research projects aims to extend Moore’s law by reducing costs and improve the energy efficiency of electronic devices.