Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics in a new special issue, guest-edited by Andreas Lendlein and Marc Behl, presents recent results on (multi)functional smart materials, including shape-memory and shape-changing polymers.
Month: December 2014
Treating cancer with low temperature plasma
Plasma Processes and Polymers publishes the first journal special issue that focuses on the application of low temperature plasma to cancer.
Direct Carbon Fuel Cells: An Ultra-Low Emission Technology for Power Generation
A group of CSIRO researchers provide a broad overview of direct carbon fuel cells.
Advanced Optical Materials – December Issue Covers
Check out the articles highlighted on the covers of the latest issue of Advanced Optical Materials.
Best of Advanced Optical Materials 2014 – Now online
Advanced Optical Materials has made a selection of the best articles from 2014 available to download for free.
Ribbon-like crystal structure hosts topological surface states
A multinational team lead by the University of Oxford has discovered a novel topological insulator in the form of Sb-doped Bi2Se3 nanowires.
Automated 2 Position Rotary Table Workstation for More Throughput in Laser Marking
Compact workstations “M2000-R” and “M3000-R” with 2 position rotary tables for industrial laser material processing. Both high-throughput laser marking workstations are suited for the efficient and ergonomic processing of geometrically complex work pieces of varying sizes as well as small and large batches of parts.
MIP sensors for direct optical detection
Researchers from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Singapore jointly developed a new type of MIP-based material for optical sensors.
Journal of Polymer Science: Special Issue Dedicated to Jean Fréchet
This Journal of Polymer Science A: Polymer Chemistry special issue, dedicated to Jean Fréchet, covers many fundamental and applied polymer chemistry topics.
Flexible transparent electrodes made from nanowire networks
Shu-Hong Yu and his research group from USTC propose a new nanowire assembly strategy to fabricate flexible transparent electrodes.
Membranes under observation
Membrane nano-tomography in living cells: Label-free evanescent microscopy enables full-field and real-time tracking of membrane processes.
Detecting a heart attack with gold nanoparticles
Researchers have developed a colloidal gold test strip for Cardiac troponin I detection based on microplasma generated gold nanoparticles.
Light sensors for artificial limbs
Researchers shine light into muscle to detect instructions for artificial limbs.
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