Researchers produced chemically doped graphene fibers with excellent electrical conductivity via a chemical doping strategy.
Advanced Materials
Soft Wheels and Rotary Motors Based on Peristaltic Motion
The Mazzeo Research Group has designed soft motors by combining pneumatically-driven elastomeric structures with peristaltic motion.
Outstanding electrocatalytic activity from metal and nitrogen co-doped carbon nanoframeworks
Zhang’s group developed a new synthetic method for preparing M,N-C electrocatalysts.
Mimicking human skin with haptic pressure sensors
Chen et al. have developed haptic memory arrays which can detect and retain external pressure distribution.
Like crystallizes like: universal lysozyme-based coating facilitates protein crystallization
Scientists develop a superhydrophobic coating technique based on the lysozyme fiber network, which provides a facile platform for protein crystallization.
Robot grippers that can mimic human hand function
Swiss researchers have used polymer actuators to create a two-fingered robotic gripper that can pick up objects of arbitrary shape, weight or deformability.
Transistors by assembling dielectric nanosheets in solution
Researchers from Northwestern University have assembled silicate nanosheets into thin dielectric films for solution-processed field-effect transistors.
Don't touch: Operating displays with moisture
A new sensor technology could enable touchless displays that respond to moisture emitted by the human body.
Harvesting light in 3D: new design for silicon solar cell
Innovative 3D silicon solar cell design on both macroscale and nanoscale boosts efficiency while lowering cost.
Collaborative nanoscience at the Molecular Foundry
A new special issue of Advanced Materials has highlighted the broad multidisiplinary work being done at the Molecular Foundry, part of the Lawerence Berkeley laboratory.
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