Korean researchers have developed lightweight commercial gamma radiation shielding based on tungsten/polyethylene nanocomposites.
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Polymers to challenge silicon photodetectors
A Chinese research group has taken a molecular engineering approach to optimize the solubility and thin-film morphology of low-bandgap polymers.
Fluorescence microscopy research wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eric Betzig, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, and William Moerner, Stanford University, share award for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
Modeling blood capillaries to prevent shock
Monitoring of blood capillary/vessel patterns with spatially resolved diffuse reflectance spectrometry might allow for the early detection of clinical shock.
LEDs win Japanese researchers 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to inventors of efficient blue LEDs.
Graphene as a building block for flexible touchscreens
Graphene-treated nanowires could soon replace current touchscreen technology, reducing production costs and allowing for more affordable, flexible displays.
Microvascular electrospun scaffolds
A combination of 3D printing and electrospinning can be used for micropatterning fibrous scaffolds that are suturable, porous, and biodegradable.
A consistent search for low-defect polymers
The Fredrickson group at UC Santa Barbara uses self-consistent field theory to explore the formation of defects in diblock copolymers.
How transparent can a layer of gold be?
Experiments have resulted in gold films with a theoretically expected transparency of over 80% in the visible range.
Biological and nanotoxicity assay for cellular nanoparticles
The combination of flow cytometry and X-ray fluorescence enables semi-quantitative estimation of cellular SiO2 nanoparticles and their biological effects.
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