Researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, improve the infrared transmission range of GLS glass for devices with combined thermal and optical imaging.
Advanced Materials
Materials Research at Wuhan University of Technology
Issue 20/2017 of Advanced Materials brings together a collection of review-type articles to highlight materials research at Wuhan University of Technology.
Light-Driven Polymer Actuators with Prestored Strain Energy
Researchers demonstrate a strategy using a photoresponsive malleable actuator with mechanical strain energy stored in the polymer beforehand.
Taking Color Inspiration from Evolutionary-Optimized White Beetle Wings
Researchers from Switzerland, Germany, UK and USA explore the local structure responsible for the vibrant white color of Cyphochilus beetles.
A Multi-Functional Self-Healing Hydrogel
The new self-healing hydrogel can recover its functionalities after being cut, without external stimuli.
Graphitic Carbon Nitride Derivatives for Cryopreservation
In Advanced Materials, researchers report for the first time the application of graphitic carbon nitride derivatives for cryopreservation of biological systems.
Repeating Structures: Dynamic Self-assembly as a Mass-Fabrication Technology
Researchers from South Korea report a dynamic self-assembly technology to fabricate repeating structures from magnetic particles.
3D Printing with a Silicone Paste
Researchers achieved 3D printing of flexible silicone rubber structures through combining water with solid and liquid forms of silicone into a pasty ink.
Transferable Semiconductor Stickers
Scientists at LMU Munich and FSU Jena have developed organic semiconductor nanosheets, which can easily be removed from a growth substrate and placed on other substrates.
Mimicking the Structural Color of Stellar’s Jay
Inspired by Steller’s jay, researchers produce angle-independent, structurally colored materials composed of amorphous arrays of fine spherical silica colloidal particles.
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