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Advanced Materials
Food additive enables printed materials for soft robotics
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Maximum Resolution through Solid Immersion
Stefan Hell and co-workers have achieved maximum spatial resolution in far-field optical imaging by applying solid immersion lenses to stimulated emission depletion microscopy.
Researchers use liquid metal to create stretchable wires
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning.
New all-polymer memory devices developed
A research team from KAUST in Saudia Arabia have fabricated all-polymer nonvolatile bistable memory devices with potential for use in flexible and transparent electronics.
Alternative to fullerenes in organic solar cells — just as exciting
Insight into the properties of fullerene is set to open the door to better and cheaper organic solar cells.
Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics may soon become possible
Researchers make a fiber out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell.
Growing nanosheets for supercapacitor electrodes
Professor X. W. Lou and co-workers report a new method to grow nanosheets on conductive substrates as a conductive agent-free electrode for supercapacitors.
Highly stable graphene-based ultrathin films: a covalent protocol
Chinese scientists have shown how to integrate highly stable graphene-based multilayered film via a novel covalent-based protocol.
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