Scientists make artificial spider silk from polymer-coated nylon, which can collect water from the atmosphere with astonishing efficiency.
Technology
Producing Nanomaterials via Laser Ablation
Professor Weiping Cai and co-workers have investigated the laser ablation/irradiation in liquid technique for producing nanomaterials.
Rolling Titanium into Scrolls: New Microstructures for Medical Implants
A group of researchers examined a new method for creating 3D micro-architectured Ti structures and found an attractive combination of stiffness, strength, and ductility.
Flexible Paper Robots
Researchers have developed inexpensive robots that can stretch, bend and twist under control, and lift objects 120 times their own weight.
A Living Cartilage Scaffold
Professor Dong-An Wang and co-workers seek to revolutionize cartilage surgery through the development of a new type of surgical graft.
Who wants a defective solar cell?
Professor Bruce Clemens and co-workers have shown that the presence of defects in CZTS solar cells brings about an increase in solar cell efficiency, in contrast to the behavior of classic semiconductor materials. This could lead to the developmemt of a commercially-viable solar cell made of earth- abundant raw materials.
Analysis on the Wing: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on Copper Butterfly Wings
Scientists have mimicked the shape of a butterfly wing to improve the sensitivity of Raman Spectroscopy.
New Series of Hydroxyapatite Biomaterials
Ceram developed a new range of Hydroxyapatite biomaterials. Now the company is looking for partners to explore the promising materials and to find new applications.
Giving recycling teeth: polylactic acid with nanofiber strengthening
Researchers strengthen the environmentally friendly plastic PLA using cellulose nanofibers.
A better way of finding nanoclusters in STEM data
Researchers develop near-atomic resolution in STEM using spherical aberration correction.
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