Liquid crystals with a bent-core have revolutionized research in soft condensed matter chemistry and physics.
Month: August 2016
1D nanostructures enable novel photonic devices in lieu of liquid crystal-based techniques
The ability to control the structural properties at the microscopic level in real-time allows the optical properties of the host medium to dynamically change .
Advanced Optical Materials – July Issue Covers
Check out the articles highlighted on the covers of the latest issue of Advanced Optical Materials.
Sticking electric vehicles
A broad range of adhesive tapes of tesa support for electric cars.
Impact of size and loading direction on the strength of architected lattice materials
Researchers from KIT show that the strength of polymer-alumina core-shell composite microlattices doubles when their size is scaled down by 50%.
Tissue-engineered fibrin-based heart valve
The BioTexValve demonstrates the potential of bio-inspired textile-reinforcement for the fabrication of functional tissue-engineered heart valves for the aortic position.
New product from culled fruits
The company Dörrwerk turns fruits that would normally end up as scrap in the garbage, into an eatable fruit paper.
Chemical approaches to 2D materials
Chemical approaches to 2D materials: A special issue of Advanced Materials
Scaffold-free tissue engineering to create a human neural tissue construct
This new tissue engineering approach may be useful to establish a technology for regenerative medicine and drug discovery using the patient’s own neurons.
Efficient radiative pumping of polaritons in a strongly coupled microcavity
This analysis demonstrated that the polariton states are most likely formed when the excited dye molecules in the cavity emit a photon, with this photon then directly exciting the photon-like part of the polariton.
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