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A drug/gene co-delivery nanoplatform
Jun Feng and collaborators address drug delivery challenges by applying boronic acid coupling and host-guest chemistry.
Prolonged optical emission in air-bridged carbon nanotubes
Ultraclean carbon nanotubes hold promise for advances in optical fiber communications, solar cells and LEDs.
Magnetic charge crystals imaged in artificial spin ice
Honeycomb configuration helps disassemble magnetic islands—potential data storage and computational advances could follow.
Polymer gel continuously responds to fleeting stimuli
A microscopic pump starts up when irradiated with UV light but its material continues to work when the stimulus is removed.
M€ 27.4 for Materials Science Center
State and Federation finance new building of 4500 square meters on KIT’s campus south – research to focus on materials for future energy systems.
The positive sides of doping
New research might pave the way for the industrialization of flexible, light-weight and low-cost cadmium telluride solar cells on metal foils.
3D graphene: solar cells' new platinum?
A unique form of carbon could lower the cost of dye-sensitized solar cells.
From carrots to flat-screen TVs: 125 years of liquid crystals
A topical issue of Angewandte Chemie and a GDCh Colloquium in Darmstadt, Germany.
Book Review: Advanced Thermoforming
Dr Peter Martin, Queen’s University Belfast reviews Advanced Thermoforming: Methods, Machines and Materials, Applications and Automation by Sven Engelmann.