Researchers at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz optimize optical perfomance of cholesteric films based on polymeric materials for lasing devices.
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Scientists at the INM are exploring new routes to flexible and transparent coatings that conduct electricity particularly well.
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Swiss researchers investigate the magnetic responsiveness of cytocompatible polyethylene functionalized carbon coated cementite and magnetite nanoparticles.
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Transgenic soybean crops can find less controversial use to help with plastics manufacturing.
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New work discusses the driving force and logic behind the development of advanced high strength steels and their application in the automotive industry.
The challenge of strongly correlated electrons in catalysis
New work discusses the main challenges in the use of DFT to study catalysis by transition metal oxides with strongly correlated electrons.
The patterning power of azopolymers in photonics
Researchers at Aalto University examine the versatility of surface patterns in azopolymers for applications in photonics.
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