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Michael Dickey and colleagues at the North Carolina State University have found a very simple way to pattern liquid metals.
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In a recent study, researchers succeeded in applying chickpea and wheat DNA as bridging unit and thin tunneling layer at the TiO2/dye interface.
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CU Boulder, Northwestern researchers lead project to measure acoustical vibrations of heart, vocal cords.
Programing Performance of Silk Fibroin Materials by Controlled Nucleation
As flexible photonics/electronics industries are going to take over the traditional industries, Bombyx mori silk will serve as a crucial material due to its capability of functionalization and re-engineering.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – November 2016
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors and sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
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...
Strong Coupling in Fully Tunable Microcavities Filled with Biologically Produced Fluorescent Proteins
The versatility of studying polariton phenomena with fluorescent proteins in fully tunable optical microcavities is addressed.
A newly structured high-κ solid-gate graphene nanosensor
A high-κ solid-gate transistor configured graphene biosensor with fully integrated structure and enhanced sensitivity
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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