Researchers from MIT present an approach to make artificial muscles with nylon that bend, controllably, in any direction.
Advanced Materials
An All-Organic Elastomeric Electret Composite
An all organic elastic electret is prepared with a piezoelectric coefficient comparable to the gold standard – poly(vinylidene fluoride.
Pure Protein Bilayers and Vesicles from Native Fungal Hydrophobins
Professor Seemann and his colleagues discovered how bilayers made purely from hydrophobins were created using a microfluidic technique.
Gecko inspires pick-and-place gripper
Cross-linked networks of liquid crystal polymers (LCNs) are used to regulate adhesion through stimuli responsive back-scrolling and self-peeling, to design a multi-legged gecko gripper.
Flexible Electronic Paper in Color
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have shown that so called plasmonic metasurfaces, ultrathin nanostructured solid materials, can be used for reflective color displays if functionalized with conductive polymers.
An artificial exoskeleton for living cells
K. Liang and co-workers demonstrate a zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) for preserving the cell life of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) and Micrococcus luteus in the presence of cytotoxic and antifungal agents.
Inorganic double helix
Scientists at TU Munich have discovered an inorganic substance whose elements are arranged in the form of a double helix.
Multifunctional Theranostic Agent for Multimodal Imaging Guided Photothermal Cancer Therapy
At Soochow University they have successfully prepared ultrasmall anionic-deficient WO3-x nanotheranostic probes
High-efficiency THz nano-detectors
An international collaboration has built THz photon sensors that operate over the 0.3-0.65 THz range, at low temperatures, with excellent signal to noise ratio values.
Shape-Reconfigurable Architected Materials
Researchers propose an architected material that can be constructed from virtually any base material.
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