In this Advanced Materials Technologies article, researchers demonstrate for the first time a rapid manufacturing process and taxel geometry to create a large area, all-elastomer robot skin
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An individual’s vitamin D level depends on their Vitamin D uptake from food and supplements, time outside in the sun, and their genetic disposition.
Smart Liquid Windows
Glass-glass fluidic devices for large-area integration with adaptive façades and smart windows
Gecko inspires pick-and-place gripper
Cross-linked networks of liquid crystal polymers (LCNs) are used to regulate adhesion through stimuli responsive back-scrolling and self-peeling, to design a multi-legged gecko gripper.
Genetically Modified Energy – How DNA Enhances Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells
In a recent study, researchers succeeded in applying chickpea and wheat DNA as bridging unit and thin tunneling layer at the TiO2/dye interface.
Manufacturing Man-Made Magnetosomes
High-Throughput in situ Synthesis of Biomimetic Magnetite Loaded Nanovesicles Naturally occurring magnetite magnetic nanoparticles are produced by magnetic bacteria within liposomes called magnetosomes. These have numerous desirable properties, for example, they are...
Structure, Properties and Applications of Thermoelectric Polymers
Recent work on the Structure, Properties and Applications of Thermoelectric Polymers is presented in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Polymer Science guest edited by Bryan Boudouris and Shannon Yee
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Panasonic has developed a thin flexible lithium-ion battery with a high resistance to bending and twisting.
Advanced Optical Materials – High impact, wide reach
Since its start as an independent journal in 2013 Advanced Optical Materials has constantly expanded its impact. One measure that proves this in numbers is of course the impact factor which has recently been updated by Thomson Reuters to 5.36. Apart from that articles...
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