A soft laminate simultaneously functions as a high-efficiency bending actuator and a high-efficiency open-air supercapacitor.
Month: July 2014
Speeding up the characterization of organic photovoltaics
A new contactless and rapid light beam-induced current method can be used to identify defects in complex organic multilayer films.
Nanoprobes allow a new kind of cancer detection
Researchers have reported a new method for detecting cancer cells, using SERS and fluorescence dual-encoded magnetic nanoprobes.
Book review: Standardisation in Cell and Tissue Engineering
Professor Robert Brown of UCL’s Tissue Repair and Engineering Centre reviews Standardisation in Cell and Tissue Engineering from Elsevier.
Recombinant proteins for better hydrogels
Researchers at Nankai University report the design and engineering of a recombinant protein that can be used for drug-delivering hydrogels.