Professor Tetsuya Uda and co-workers have uncovered the first evidence of tetravalent dysprosium in a crystalline oxide material.
Advanced Materials
Lubricating with Nanometer-Sized Silver
Researchers have utilized silver complexes as lubricating oil additives to engineer an efficient and cost-effective lubricant.
Seeking Treasures in Fau Land: Hierarchical Zeolite Design
On the latest Advanced Functional Materials cover, Javier Pérez-Ramírez and co-workers take an imaginative approach to depicting their zeolite synthesis research.
Diamond Membranes for Quantum Computing
By using microwave CVD, high quality, single crystal diamond membranes have been epitaxially grown. The resulting material exhibits bright luminescence and good electron spin coherences times, suitable for application in quantum computing.
Composite Materials: Reinforcing Metal with Ceramics
Combining a ductile metal matrix with brittle ceramic additions leads to new composite materials with superior mechanical properties, which appears to be ideal for structural and crash-absorption applications.
A 3D Metamaterial: Nanostructuring with Polymers
Scientists have fabricated a 3D metamaterial, which shows linear and circular dichroism, using a self-assembled block copolymer as a template.
Producing Nanomaterials via Laser Ablation
Professor Weiping Cai and co-workers have investigated the laser ablation/irradiation in liquid technique for producing nanomaterials.
Rolling Titanium into Scrolls: New Microstructures for Medical Implants
A group of researchers examined a new method for creating 3D micro-architectured Ti structures and found an attractive combination of stiffness, strength, and ductility.
Flexible Paper Robots
Researchers have developed inexpensive robots that can stretch, bend and twist under control, and lift objects 120 times their own weight.
A Living Cartilage Scaffold
Professor Dong-An Wang and co-workers seek to revolutionize cartilage surgery through the development of a new type of surgical graft.
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