

Lisa Smith


December 8 – Growth and decay of a two-dimensional oxide quasicrystal: High-temperature in situ microscopy, published in Annalen der Physik

Along Came a Spider…
A study investigating the blue colouring of many tarantulas discovered that it arises due to multilayer interference, yet little or no iridescence is observed.

December 7 – Kinetic Effects on Self-Assembly and Function of Protein–Polymer Bioconjugates in Thin Films Prepared by Flow Coating, published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications

December 6 – CellShape: A user-friendly image analysis tool for quantitative visualization of bacterial cell factories inside, published in Biotechnology Journal

December 5 – Spatio-Design of Multidimensional Prickly Zn-Doped CuO Nanoparticle for Efficient Bacterial Killing, published in Advanced Materials Interfaces

December 4 – The ginger component 6-shogaol prevents TNF-α-induced barrier loss via inhibition of PI3K/Akt and NF-κB signaling, published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

December 3 – Micro and nanoparticles of native and modified cassava starches as carriers of the antimicrobial potassium sorbate, published in Starch

December 2 – Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale, published in Advanced Optical Materials
