This month’s top Advanced Optical Materials papers and covers.
Results for "plastic"
Leaf The Lights On
Repeatedly bringing a leaf into contact with a plastic sheet makes a useful electic current, which can be used to power various electronic devices.
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics: Polymer Characterization and Morphology
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics showcases advances in polymer characterization and morphology
DNA Replication Revisited: Single-Molecule Analyses Reveal Its Highly Dynamic Nature
In their review in BioEssays, Karl Duderstadt and colleagues challenge the long-held view that DNA replication follows a single highly reproducible sequence of molecular events.
Multiscale Modeling of Microstructure-Property Relationships
This review emphasizes the importance of the physics-based plasticity theory in constitutive material descriptions for more accurate simulations of deformation in the development of metal forming processes, for controlling mechanical behavior via tailoring microstructural features, and for subsequent component performance testing.
Engineering Digest – Featuring Soft Robotics, Mechanical Metamaterials, and More
This month’s Advanced Engineering Materials covers and top papers.
Support-Free with “TwoCure”
A cooperation between research and industry successfully improves resin-based 3D printing.
Tackling Diabetes: Toward Bifunctional Glucose and Dopamine Sensors with Plasma
A plasma-treated polyethylene is used as as an affordable and easy mediator to produce enzymatic glucose sensors that could be used for diabetic patients.
Living Anionic Polymerization – A Powerful Method
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics presents advantages and potentials of the anionic polymerization technique.
A Rapidly Self-Healing Polymer for Wearable Devices
Researchers from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology report a novel self-healing polymer that undergoes rapid self-healing by aromatic disulfide metathesis. More than 75% of the initial mechanical properties are restored within only 2 hours, making it a promising material for the wearable electronics industry.
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