Dr. Mehdi Jorfi and Prof. E. Johan Foster review the applications of nanocellulose in various biomedical applications.
Month: February 2015
Combining family and scientific career? Just do it!
Katharina Landfester (Director, MPI for Polymer Research) describes how she and her husband manage to balance their family life and scientific careers.
Towards spintronics: integrating magnetic semiconductors
Researchers have successfully deposited high quality dilute magnetic semiconductor thin films on lead magneisum niobate titanate single crystals.
DNA-based Boolean logic
Danish researchers have successfully constructed a universal DNA based Boolean logic gate system.
International Year of Light Article Series
Advanced Optical Materials is joining in the activities of the International Year of Light through publishing a special series of review articles.
Solar Refinery: Can we have our carbon cake and eat it too?
Professor Ozin explores the feasability of a solar refinery for making fuels and chemicals from CO2, H2O and sunlight.
Precision polymers through ADMET polymerization
Acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization is a unique strategy for achieving polymers with precise control over the primary structure.
Microstructures by Design
X-ray imaging and controlled solidification is used to watch and understand how crystals evolve in metals.
Low-cost, large-area plasmonic perfect absorbers
Tunable, angle- and polarization independent absorber fabricated using a combination of colloidal lithography, with disordered arrangement, and dry-etching.
Investigating next generation LED materials
Research from a Canadian-German collaboration focuses on a next generation nitridolithoaluminate phosphor, SLA, as a breakthrough material.
Micro power meter can measure nanowire heat transfer
Researchers have developed a microscale powermeter that directly measures light absorption and heat transfer in individual nanowires.
Modified monolayer graphene interacts strongly with terahertz waves
Confining light into ultra-small metallic gaps dramatically boosts light interaction with graphene.
A promising anode candidate for the next generation lithium-ion batteries
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University report on a red phosphorus-graphene nanosheet hybrid as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries.
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