Multi-year research effort to improve supply, efficient use, and recycling of critical materials to reduce US dependence on foreign sources.
Advanced Science News
Content curated by ASN staff
Engineering Calculations and Materials Processing: Authors on Film
Two materials science authors, Diran Apelian and Arthur Morris, tell us a bit about their work and where they see it fitting in the wider field.
Konarka Technologies Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Protection
Sun may have set on leading thin-film solar panel manufacturer as it runs out of cash.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for June 6, 2012
High-performance polymers for organic photovoltaics takes the top spot as the most-downloaded Advanced Materials paper in the last week.
Breaking and Assembling Liquid Crystals
Reversible fragmentation and self-assembling of nematic liquid crystal droplets on functionalized pyroelectric substrates
Infochemistry
Infochemistry: Information Processing at the Nanoscale, defines a new field of science, and describes the processes, systems and devices at the interface between chemistry and information sciences. The book is devoted to the application of molecular species and...
Oxide Ultrathin Films – A Review
A new guide to thin films, edited by Gianfranco Pacchioni and Sergio Valeri is given the review treatment by Dr. Charles Dunnill, University College London.
How to Improve The Thermal Behaviour of Polymer Nanocomposites?
Luo and Lloyd, using molecular dynamics simulations, have investigated methods to increase the thermal conductivity of polymeric nanocomposites.
Chiral Generators: Making Plasmonics Twist
A new chiral material demonstrates a highly efficient optical response.
Building Artificial Brains: Nanotechology to Mimic Synapses
A new nanodevice has been developed, intended to reproduce the behaviour of a human synapse.