A roundup of news from the past week in the materials science industry.
Technology
Europewide challenge to Moore's law begins
New pan-european research projects aims to extend Moore’s law by reducing costs and improve the energy efficiency of electronic devices.
Vanadium dioxide holds the key to spintronic smart sensors
Researchs integrate vanadium oxide onto a silicon chip, paving the way for multifunctional spintronic smart sensors and next-generation spintronic devices.
A new class of graphene-based electronics?
Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device.
Aluminum foam with nickel coating and superior properties
Scientists from Germany and Norway investigated the texture and grain growth of aluminum foam with a nickel coating to improve the mechanical properties.
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.
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