A trilayer plasma-deposited coating that encapsules maize to protect against infection by the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum.
Simple Could Be Better Than Complex
Contrary to conventional strategies, an extremely low thermal conductivity can be obtained in materials with simple composition.
Light Materials – Science and Technology: A Special Section in Advanced Engineering Materials
Advanced Engineering Materials presents a Special Section on “Light Materials – Science and Technology”, guest edited by Axel von Hehl et al. The Special Section comprises of 12 articles that highlight the recent progress made in the field of light-weighted materials.
Stretchable and Self-Healing Supercapacitors for Wearable Electronics
A new device-level configurational design has resulted in highly stretchable and self-healing supercapacitors.
Developing Alternatives to Antibiotics
Moving away from our dependence on antibiotics through alternative antimicrobial strategies.
Assessing the Fertility of Sperm
Machine-learning applied to IVF.
Minimal Cells, Maximal Impact
Members of the Max Planck Research Network in Synthetic Biology put together a special issue on synthetic cells for Advanced Biosystems.
Improving PET Polymer Using VUV Photons
Japanese researchers studied how to increase the water contact angle of a PET surface.
Take the Air out of Tires
Michelin and General Motors present a prototype of a new airless wheel technology for passenger vehicles. planned to launch for 2024.
How to Reduce Stress at the Nanoscale Level
Scientists measured nanoscale structural alterations in the brains of mice after chronic corticosterone administration using a novel nanoscale optical imaging technique and gene expression analysis.