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Prolonged optical emission in air-bridged carbon nanotubes
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Nanowires, solar cells, and silicene – these and more in July’s physics highlights.

Improving solar cell design through photocatalysis
Chinese group show semiconductors can improve efficiency of photocatalysis, with potential in turn for better solar cells.

New Faces on the Advanced Healthcare Materials Board
Chunhai Fan, Ali Khademhosseini, André Nel, Catherine Picart and Nicholas Peppas join the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Healthcare Materials.

Researchers image electron pairing in superconductor
Findings and resulting theory could reveal mechanism behind zero-energy-loss current-carrying capability.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for May 2013
We present the most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals from May.

MIT researchers develop optical transistor
Researchers describe the experimental realization of an optical switch controlled by a single photon, allowing light to govern the transmission of light.

Startups in materials science: interview with Jeffrey Carbeck
What materials discoveries had an impact on business the past 10 years? How will we do materials science startups in the future? Jeff Carbeck explains.

New material for low-platinum catalysis
Platinum-nickel nano-octahedra save 90 percent platinum.