NKT Photonics’ Project Manager Lasse Leick has received the 2012 Pasteur Award.
Technology
Simulating carbon nanotube yarn for stronger, tougher materials
Researchers have combined nanomechanical shear experiments with multiscale simulations to try to understand the interactions between bare carbon nanotubes.
Blood Capillary Analogs for In Vitro Drug Testing
Blood capillary analogues have been developed in a biodegradable hydrogel as a promising platform for in vitro drug testing.
Plasmonic biosensors with artificial antibodies
Researchers use molecular imprinting to develop a highly sensitive and selective nanorod biosensor with artificial antibodies.
Tuning high quantum efficiency in light-emitting organic materials
Researchers demonstrate that the fluorescence of PDPA in solid film can be tuned by copolymerization of monomers with different alkyl side chain lengths.
New avenue to integrated fiber technology
Researchers have given an overview of the principal inscription techniques and physical properties of fs pulse written in-fiber gratings for fiber optics.
Photoresponsive Azobenzene Block Copolymers: Novel Storage Materials for Rewritable Media
Block copolymers based on azobenzene-containing homo-polyesters have been investigated for use in future data storage technology.
Renewable polymers from natural resources
Scientists from the USA and China report on the development of monomers and polymers from terpenes, terpenoids, and rosin.
Playing Ball with Liquid Metal Marbles: Breakthrough in Flexible Electronics
Researchers have developed a new system using galinstan liquid metal and nanoparticles, in what could be a major development for flexible and self-repairing electronics.
Nature’s Nanomaterials – To Be or Not to Be Bioinspired?
How much does materials science stand to gain from Nature? Professor Ozin gives his take on the progress of biomimetics.
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