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Advanced Materials
Dispersion of Solid Metals into Powder Using Extreme Extrusion
Fine dispersion of bulk metals appears at very high extrusion rates and pressures. This phenomenon is interesting not only for material science, but also for the development of new technologies.
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New silica microsphere films mimic the striking color display of the Morpho butterfly, with the added advantage of material flexibility.
Can We Make Artificial Joints Better?
An MIT group have developed a new coating in an attempt to reduce the number of surgeries required to correct artificial implants.
Metamaterial Absorbers: A Review
Padilla and co-workers give an excellent overview on metamaterial absorbers and discuss a selection of examples and related applications in this field.
Gold Nanoantennas Boost the Emission Rate of Conjugated Polymers
The radiative emission rate of poly(3-hexylthiophene) could be greatly enhanced by integrating it into a plasmonic split-dipole nanoantenna.
Advanced Materials Top 40 for June 6, 2012
High-performance polymers for organic photovoltaics takes the top spot as the most-downloaded Advanced Materials paper in the last week.
Breaking and Assembling Liquid Crystals
Reversible fragmentation and self-assembling of nematic liquid crystal droplets on functionalized pyroelectric substrates
How to Improve The Thermal Behaviour of Polymer Nanocomposites?
Luo and Lloyd, using molecular dynamics simulations, have investigated methods to increase the thermal conductivity of polymeric nanocomposites.
Chiral Generators: Making Plasmonics Twist
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