Researchs integrate vanadium oxide onto a silicon chip, paving the way for multifunctional spintronic smart sensors and next-generation spintronic devices.
BASF inaugurates battery research centre in Japan
BASF inaugurated its Research and Development Laboratory and Application Technology Center for Battery Materials in Amagasaki, Japan on Wednesday the 5th.
A new class of graphene-based electronics?
Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device.
Aluminum foam with nickel coating and superior properties
Scientists from Germany and Norway investigated the texture and grain growth of aluminum foam with a nickel coating to improve the mechanical properties.
Researchers capture photoactivation at the single-cell level
G. Han and co-workers have reported real-time recording of tuned upconversion nanoparticles mediating rapid photoactivation down to just a few cells.
Best of Advanced Optical Materials – Now online
Advanced Optical Materials has made a selection of the best articles from 2013 available to download for free.
Boring problems resolved
The companies Schuler and Dörries Scharmann retrofitted an almost 30 year old boring machine.
Instantaneous distributions: A snapshot of the microstructure of polymers
The versatility and predictive power of the method of instantaneous distributions for polymer reaction engineering practitioners is demonstrated.
The week in research: February 5th 2014
A roundup of the latest materials science research from the past week.
Integrating electronics with cells to detect bacteria
Device made of organic transistor integrated with a human intestinal cell-line successfully detects Salmonella typhimurium.