Micro/nanorobots to the rescue for environmental and medical applications.
Advanced Materials
Salt Drives Directional Particle Transport
Directional motion and transport can be achieved using a salt concentration gradient and an appropriately designed self‐assembling system, without substantial synthetic effort or a matrix.
Supercritical Lens Improves Optical Resolution at a Distance
Minghui Hong and colleagues report super-critical-lens (SCL) optical label‐free microscopy, which clearly distinguishes a pattern with a feature size of 65 nm in air and with a 55 μm working distance.
A Timely, On-Demand Anticoagulation Solution for Cardiovascular Diseases
A therapeutic thrombin-responsive patch to help with acute pulmonary thromboembolism.
Dancing Trees: Dual-Controlled Actuation of Polymer Films
Dancing polymer tree actuation!
Hot Stuff: Direct Ink Writing of Mesoscale Eutectic Architectures
Jennifer Lewis and colleagues report a new process for creating mesoscale eutectic architectures, known as high operating temperature direct ink writing (HOT‐DIW).
4D Printing of Complex, Polymeric Structures
Novel 4D printing produces a Sydney Opera House-like 3D structure.
Switching Liquid Repellent Surfaces
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, USA, have now revealed a magnetically transformable surface that can reversibly switch between the lotus and the pitcher plant modes
Magnetoelectric Robots Target Disease
Salvador Pané and colleagues demonstrate core–shell magnetoelectric nanowires that can be triggered using different magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery to kill cancer cells.
Small is Big and Strong in Suzhou
Shuit-Tong Lee and Lifeng Chi have guest edited an issue of Advanced Materials, which provides an insight into the nanoscience research going on in and around Suzhou.
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