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Advanced Energy Materials Top 40 for August 22, 2012
This week’s top three are all newcomers to the Advanced Energy Materials Top 40 table.
Printing Electronics: High-Speed Transistors with Electrochemical Gating
Researchers show that solid polymer electrolytes can be used as the gating insulator for printed electronics, contrary to accepted thinking.
New Particle Science Journal Opens for Submissions
Particle & Particle Systems Characterization is the new sister journal of Advanced Materials.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for June 2012
The most downloaded papers from the physica status solidi family in June.
Novel Fused Heteroacenes for Thin-Film Transistors
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, designed a novel fused heteroacene with high hole mobility for solution processed thin-film transistors.
White LEDs directly on paper
White LEDs, made from zinc oxide and a conducting polymer, can be manufactured directly on paper.
Could silicene be the future of electronics?
The next generation of computing could be performed with silicene, an atomically thin form of silicon which could revolutionize electronics.
Approaching an Organic Semi-metal
Zwitterion films with a significant bandwidth in the intermolecular band dispersion show evidence of electron pockets at the Fermi Level.
DNA as a Future Component of Electronics
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