Drugs used to treat blindness-causing disorders could be successfully administered by eye drops rather than unpleasant and expensive eye injections.
Micro-/Nanotechnology
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 outperforms multicrystalline silicon
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells have now reached a high efficiency level with a new record efficiency of 20.8 %.
Book review: Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering
SUNY professor Balaji Sitharaman reviews Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering.
Easy and rapid sintering technique for microbeads
Researchers reduced the sintering time for an adsorbent by a factor of 60 and improved the specific surface area.
Happy 60th birthday, Prof. Grigoriy A. Mun!
Dr Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy of the University of Reading looks back on the career to date of his friend and mentor Prof. Grigoriy A. Mun.
Book Review: Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
Professor Bengt Fadeel of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet reviews Nanomaterials for Medical Applications by Zoraida Aguilar.
Multi-spectral materials in the visible, infrared, and terahertz
The combination of a plasmonic color filter and a terahertz metamaterial absorber exhibits unique resonant phenomena over several decades of wavelengths.
Todd Siler’s Nano World – Think Billionths of a Meter
Guest writer Professor Geoff Ozin tells us about the inaugural ArtNano show which will be held at The Armory Show, Pier 94, New York, on March 6-9th.
Hyperuniform disordered photonic materials with a complete band gap
Due to their unique properties these fascinating materials are predicted to possess a complete photonic bandgap without any long-range order.
A week in the materials industry: February 11th 2014
A roundup of news from the past week in the materials science industry.
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New theory suggests gravity is not a fundamental force
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French WEST reactor breaks record in nuclear fusion
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Quantum entanglement visualized for the first time ever
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An anti-inflammatory peptide may hold the key to low-back pain relief
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“Cosmic vine” discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope
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Could a nuclear explosion set Earth’s atmosphere on fire?
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The Road to Better Presentation of Data: The Do’s and Don’ts
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The dramatic story behind general relativity’s Nobel Prize snub
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Ibuprofen’s effect on red blood cells: A prickly affair
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Calculating the true environmental costs of AI