Scientists from Germany and Norway investigated the texture and grain growth of aluminum foam with a nickel coating to improve the mechanical properties.
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Researchers capture photoactivation at the single-cell level
G. Han and co-workers have reported real-time recording of tuned upconversion nanoparticles mediating rapid photoactivation down to just a few cells.
Best of Advanced Optical Materials – Now online
Advanced Optical Materials has made a selection of the best articles from 2013 available to download for free.
Boring problems resolved
The companies Schuler and Dörries Scharmann retrofitted an almost 30 year old boring machine.
Integrating electronics with cells to detect bacteria
Device made of organic transistor integrated with a human intestinal cell-line successfully detects Salmonella typhimurium.
New measuring system for special optic devices
University spin-off wants to enter the market with EasyPrecision – a high-precision optical measuring system.
Book review: Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers
Seema Agarwal (Universität Bayreuth) reviews the Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers: Isolation, Synthesis, Characterization and Applications.
Polymers in Boston at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting
Polymer scientists at the 2013 MRS Fall meeting in Boston brought another year of materials science research to a close with a bang.
This week in the materials industry: January 31st 2014
Headlines from the last seven days of materials science industry news.
Drawing chemical sensors on paper with a flexible toy pencil
Research team at Northwestern University show that chemical sensors capable of detecting toxic vapors can be drawn with a toy pencil on paper.
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