Researchers have utilized silver complexes as lubricating oil additives to engineer an efficient and cost-effective lubricant.
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Wave Propagation is Under Control: Metamaterials Are Going 3D
From invisibility cloaks to metatronics – metamaterials might offer a wealth of innovative applications. Prerequisite are 3D metamaterials working in the THz region. Latest developments could initiate a further upswing for this strange seeming kind of matter.
How to solubilize hydrophobic dendrimers
How surfactants bearing an aromatic structure at the hydrophobic terminal solubilizes hydrophobic pi-conjugating dendrimers.
Low-Power Upconversion in Dye-Doped Polymer Nanoparticles
The fabrication of dye-doped cross-linked rubbery nanoparticles with light upconversion properties even at relatively low power densities has been reported by a Swiss/American research team.
Optical memory using leaky ferroelectrics?
Scientists probe the optoelectric behaviour of bismuth ferrite at the nanoscale and propose a novel ferroelectric-based memory application.
Energy in Pictures – 2012/1
Energy research in pictures: Advanced Energy Materials covers from January 2012.
How do leaves get the most out of sunlight?
Scientists discovered regular distributions of cystoliths occurs in plant leafs that enhance light-aborbing efficiency.
Ravin Narain: Aiming for a Cancer Cure with Biomaterials and Nanotechnology
We speak to University of Alberta Professor Ravin Narain about his polymeric and nano-materials research, and what it might for the future of biomaterials and medicine.
Measuring the Unmeasurable: Steelmaking, Fission Reactors, and Microalloyed Steels
A new model for steelmaking, fission reactor design, dissolution kinetics – this and more in the latest from Steel Research International.
Making microlasers the flexible way
An elegant technique for self-assembling microlasers from droplets is reported in Advanced Optical Materials.
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