Silicone elastomers are favourable materials for dielectric elastomer transducers. Read more about the current state-of-the-art.
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Further development of OLED technology leads in commercial solutions.
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Hu’s group at SCUT investigate alkyne-based multicomponent polymerization to afford polymers from three or more kinds of monomers in a one-pot procedure.
Shallow donor in natural MoS2
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1st International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics
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