This is the first book to address the fundamental operation principles, device characteristics, and potential applications of various types of adaptive lenses. Setting out from basic material properties to device structures and performance, this volume covers...
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Is It Ripe? Carbon Nanotubes Can Sense Fruit
Carbon nanotube-based ethylene sensor establishes fruit ripeness
Advanced Materials Top 40 for May 16, 2012
Many new entries in the Top 40 most-read papers in Advanced Materials last week, including work on graphene, organic and oxide semiconductors, plasmonics, and nanostructures.
Tuning Heteroatoms: Making Efficient Photocatalysts
An international research team have designed and developed a method for synthesizing photocatalysts with tunable heteroatom distribution.
Printing with Lasers: Making Electronics Quick and Easy
A European research team has made a breakthrough in the printing of organic electronics.
Bayer to Establish Wind Energy Research Center
MaterialScience division to pool expertise in research and development at existing site in Otterup, Denmark.
New Chairman of Supervisory Board at Carl Zeiss AG
Dr. Dieter Kurz elected as new Chairman, effective immediately.
Simulated digestion: nanomaterials improve drug absorption
Materials which can improve drug absorption in the body have been developed using silicon dioxide nanoparticles.
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