Unusual materials and design strategies enable NFC technology to be embedded into electronic systems that are ultrathin, soft and stretchable, like skin.
Flexible and printable magneto-electronics
A German research team have fabricated magneto-electronics that fulfill the performance and processing requirements for consumer electronics.
Enhancing photocatalysis with strontium titanate
Densely aligned SrTiO3-modified rutile TiO2 heterojunction photocatalysts have been crafted by a Chinese/American collaboration.
Beam-steering on a liquid crystal grating
Researchers demonstrate that beam steering using self-organized cholesteric liquid crystals containing a light-driven chiral molecular switch.
Nanomaterials and photoacoustic imaging for better cancer detection
PDI-based organic nanomaterials have been successful developed and used for detection of deep human glioblastoma in mice models using photoacoustic imaging.
Molybdenum disulfide nanosheets married with carbon nanofibers for high-energy batteries
Shu-Hong Yu and his team have developed a method to construct kinetically stable anode materials for high-energy applications.
Polymer-based flexible bioelectronics
Researchers have created a low-cost, flexible bioelectronic device based on PEDOT:PSS, which they used for monitoring action potentials from cell tissues.
Moving towards quantum computers
Joris van Slageren´s research group discovers molecular quantum bit with exceptionally long coherence time over an unusually wide temperature range.
Book review: Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
Professor Alexander Zelikin, Aarhus University reviews Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies from the RSC.
Forming perovskite films with ALD from a seed layer
Researchers have formed perovskite films from a seed layer grown with atomic layer deposition, an standard technology for dielectric materials.