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Pixelligent and ORNL to collaborate on roll-to-roll fabrication
Joint project aims to optimize materials and formulations for improved performance and cost for roll-to-roll manufacturing, including for OLED devices.
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A novel screening approach for discriminating dysplasia from metaplasia in Barrett’s Esophagus using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy.
Ordered structure boosts DOPA-mediated adhesion
Team reports a catechol-based SAM technique to produce more homogeneous catechol-containing surface with improved adhesion properties.
Why are halide perovskites so good in solar cells?
A research group has uncovered the unique structural, electronic, optical, and defect properties of halide peroveskites.
Purifying pharmaceuticals with nanostructured metasurfaces
A combination of nanotechnology and a unique twisting property of light could lead to new methods for ensuring the purity and safety of pharmaceuticals.
Bamboo-like Hybrid Fibers
A biomimetic one-step fabrication approach is utilized to generate bamboo-like hybrid fibers at the micro- and nanoscale.
Stimulating neurons with IR-responsive gold nanorods
Silica-coated gold nanorods with absorption at precisely 780 nm cause action potentials in nerve cells when exposed to laser light.
Patterning silk microstructures with photolithography
Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University have found a way to fabricate precise, biocompatible architectures of silk proteins at the microscale.
First demonstration of "microcrucible" nanowire growth
A mechanism of growth of anisotropic metal oxides that was predicted 20 years ago has been observed for the first time.
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