Researchers from Peking University demonstrate that a plasmonic contact electrode can enhance the performance of carbon nanotube infrared detectors.
Silk E-Skin
Beijing-based researchers design an electronic (E-skin) based on silk fibroin for wearable pressure sensor applications.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – January 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Adaptive Architecture for Energy-Saving Buildings
Kiri-kirigami structures are the next generation of origami-based reconfigurable mechanical metamaterials for adaptive architecture and energy-saving buildings.
Special Issue Advanced Materials Interfaces: Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
The first issue 2017 in Advanced Materials Interfaces highlights “Perspectives in Interface Research”.
MetOp-C: All Good Things Come in Threes
The third MetOp weather satellite is being put to the test.
Proteins Feel the Pinch with DNA Nanotweezers
In a study published in the new journal Advanced Biosystems, scientists from the University of Hong Kong demonstrated that it is possible to use a DNA aptamer split across a tweezer such that the presence of the target protein triggers the DNA tweezer mechanism.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – December 2016
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Dancing Trees: Dual-Controlled Actuation of Polymer Films
Dancing polymer tree actuation!
Advanced Optical Materials Highlights Biosensors, Metasurfaces, and a Caterpillar Robot
Biosensors, metasurfaces, and a caterpillar robot is highlighted on the November covers of Advanced Optical Materials.