This first book devoted to this hot field of science covers materials with bimodal, trimodal and multimodal pore size, with an emphasis on the successful design, synthesis and characterization of all kinds of hierarchically porous materials using different...
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Scanning Probe Microscopy of Soft Matter
A must-have for newcomers and established researchers in the field. With its pedagogical and self-contained approach, it covers the fundamentals of scanning probe microscopy, explaining how to measure the important properties and including applications in...
High-Energy Supercapacitors based on Graphene Composites
A Chinese research team have constructed a powerful new supercapacitor using two types of graphene – composite and porous.
Third Polymer International-IUPAC Prize Awarded to Professor Ali Khademhosseini
MIT Professor Ali Khademhosseini is the third winner of the Pl-IUPAC Award for Creativity in Applied Polymer Science or Polymer Technology.
BASF acquires extrusion technology from B.C. Foam: PET foams for the wind energy sector
BASF has purchased the PET foam business of the Italian company B.C. Foam S.p.A., headquartered in Volpiano.
New Bayer Material Meets Demand for Tougher Turbine Blades
Bayer’s new polyurethane systems could meet the demand for stronger, more durable wind turbine blades.
Printing Skin: An Inkjet for Tissue Engineering
Scientists in Lausanne have developed an inkjet printing system to produce artificial living tissue.
Perfectly spherical gold nanodroplets produced with smallest-ever nanojets
Using plasmonic hotspots, gold nanostructures can be melted and made to produce the smallest nanojets ever observed.
Breast cancer cells targeted, then burned, by gold-filled silicon wafers
By shining infrared light on specially designed, gold-filled silicon wafers, scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute have successfully targeted and burned breast cancer cells. If the technology is shown to work in human clinical trials, it could...
AFM Actuators Drafted for Nanoscale Thermal Analysis
Researchers show that they can perform nanoscale thermal analysis on stiff materials like epoxies and filled composites.