A soft laminate simultaneously functions as a high-efficiency bending actuator and a high-efficiency open-air supercapacitor.
Advances in Advanced Ceramics and Coating Processing
This themed issue of Advanced Engineering Materials focusses on novel processing of advanced ceramics, composites, and coatings.
Multiscale modelling methods as a new design tool
This themed issue of Steel Research International is dedicated to multiscale modelling methods as a new design tool for processes and materials.
Developing the field of cellular materials
A themed issue, guest-edited by Guenter Stephani (Dresden) and Michael Scheffler (Magdeburg) highlights new developments in cellular materials.
Outdoor operational stability of polymer solar modules
ITO-free large-area organic solar cell modules were operated in outdoor conditions over 1 year simultaneously in India and Denmark.
Prevention of plasticizer leaching out of PVC products
An elegant approach to internally plasticized PVC, with the main goal of prevention plasticizer leaching.
Macromolecular Engineering: Precisely Controlled Polymer Architectures – Free Access to Recent Highlights
A new special issue of Macromolecular Rapid Communications highlights exciting recent developments in the field of macromolecular engineering.
Exploring quality in gradient copolymers
Atomic force microscopy was used to image and characterize the gradient composition in single molecular bottlebrushes.
Fumed silica nanoparticles to functionalise artificial organs
Fumed silica nanoparticles are functionalised to have ‘tethering’ proteins and link bioactive groups to induce biomimicry.
Free-standing organometallic sheets and their multilayers on solid substrates
Free-standing organometallic sheets are prepared and used to create multilayer assemblies on square centimetre length scales on solid substrates.