The Terrones group at The Pennsylvania State University in the US has reported a controlled technique able to dope graphene with silicon atoms.
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Random nanostructures make better flexible electronics
Nanostructuring improves optical confinement and limited light out-coupling efficiency from by the mismatched refractive indices of media in devices.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – Nov. 2014
This month’s top 5 most read articles from Advanced Optical Materials.
Titanium composites reinforced in-situ by polymer-derived ceramic phases
A University of Padova research team have developed a simpler strategy for producing titanium matrix composites.
Studying the deposition of sexithiophene on fullerene
Prof. Zannoni and co-workers publish research on the deposition of sexithiophene on a fullerene substrate.
Funtionalising scaffolds for nanoparticle templating
Short engineered protein sequences have been used to initiate the simultaneous synthesis of two inorganic species in desired locations with nanoscale accuracy.
Ultrafast Electrically Tunable Polaritonic Metasurfaces
Scientists design an electrically reconfigurable optical metasurface by merging plasmonic metamaterials with semiconductor heterostructures.
European Polymer Congress in Dresden
The next Congress of the European Polymer Federation (EPF) will be held in Dresden, Germany, from June 21 to 26, 2015. It is organized by the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. (IPF) and the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
Molecular systems for flexible electronics
New research investigates the position of molecular memory on a nanometer-thick film.
Instructing neural cell growth with synthetic hydrogels
Researchers have reported a multi-component hydrogel material that can be utilized to direct the fate of neural precursor cells in vitro.
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