Silver nanoparticles are a more effective cancer treatment in immune competent mice.
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4D Printing of Complex, Polymeric Structures
Novel 4D printing produces a Sydney Opera House-like 3D structure.
Switching Liquid Repellent Surfaces
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, USA, have now revealed a magnetically transformable surface that can reversibly switch between the lotus and the pitcher plant modes
Highlights of the MRS Fall Meeting 2016, Boston
Society is at a crossroads with many topics such as sustainability, energy, medicine, and healthcare. Material science offers many solutions to these problems.
Towards High Performance and High Resolution – Patterning of Organohalide Lead Perovskite Pixels
High-resolution photolithographic patterning of organohalide lead perovskites is made possible using hydrofluoroethers.
Special Issue: Fracture and Fatigue
This special issue of Advanced Engineering Materials covers different aspects of brittle fracture and fatigue of traditional and advanced materials.
Let Disorder Shine
An uniaxial press can assemble monodisperse silica spheres to photonic glasses that exhibit finely tunable Mie scattering.
Magnetoelectric Robots Target Disease
Salvador Pané and colleagues demonstrate core–shell magnetoelectric nanowires that can be triggered using different magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery to kill cancer cells.
Improved Drug Delivery with Layered, Coated Drug Cores
A recent review highlights and discusses the layer-by-layer encapsulation of solid drug particles.
Affinity Chromatography for Separating Closely Related Pharmaceuticals
Researchers collaborating between the USA and the Netherlands have adapted a technique typically used for the removal of process-related impurities in order to separate out product-related impurities.
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