Vermicular iron castings are resistant to changing temperatures for commercial vehicles and the railway industry.
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International Year of Light: Structured Surfaces for Solar Absorption
This article reviews how structured surfaces can be used to maximize solar absorption.
Multifunctional nanoarrays: flexible and precise nanolithography
High resolution nanolithography from combined fabrication processes creates multifunctional nanoarrays with applications in nanoimprinting and plasmonics.
20 billion switches on a fingernail-sized chip
A development alliance produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm node test chips with functioning transistors.
Improving Space Telescope and Sight
NASA and ophthalmologists using the the same technology to detect imperfections.
Soft biocompatible PEG hydrogels
Soft biocompatible PEG hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties and RGDS-content have been prepared by Löwik et al. using a copper free-click reaction.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – August 2015
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Softwood becomes exclusive hardwood
Scientists at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen have developed an innovative treatment for domestic wood and timber.
Threatening Silicon’s Diamond Throne
Professor Ozin explores a new silicon allotrope with potential for high capacity lithium ion batteries, enhanced efficiency photovoltaics and next generation light emitting diodes.
Tuning color – better organic light emitters
Researchers have recently prepared zinc (II) metallopolymers with effective emission color tuning from blue to red, suitable for photonic devices.
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