The University of Kiel’s aerographite maintains its grip at the top of the Advanced Materials Top 40 this week.
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Could silicene be the future of electronics?
The next generation of computing could be performed with silicene, an atomically thin form of silicon which could revolutionize electronics.
July Highlights from physica status solidi
Spin Hall effects, scintillators, and nanotubes – these and more in July’s physics highlights.
Combined STM and DFT studies of rutile surface chemistry
New work looks at recent progress in STM and DFT studies on the electronic structure of reduced rutile titanium dioxide.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for July 19, 2012
Work on the synthesis of Aerographite, a new type of ultra-lightweight material, moves up five places to number 1 in this week’s Advanced Materials top 40.
Aerographite takes the lightest material crown, for now: density of a few hundred micrograms per cubic centimeter
A German materials science lab have reported the fabrication of a new material that breaks the record for lightest solid.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for July 11, 2012
Sun and Ruoff go straight in at number one this week, with their new method for casting graphene structures.
Fuel adulteration: Rubber swelling as a new method of detection
Relating the swelling of styrene-butadiene rubber to the concentration of toluene in gasoline represents a new method to detect fuel adulteration.
Nanotexturing of transparent polymers with plasma etching
New work in nanotechnology: nanotexturing of plastics improves anti-reflectivity.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for July 6, 2012
It’s a new top 40 and a new top 3 this week, with a distinctly nano theme: work on making and using gold nanorods comes in at number one.
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