Advanced Materials Top 40 for May 9, 2012

Windows that cool themselves could cut AC costs

This new high-tech window glass reflects heat and radiates excess warmth into space, slashing air conditioning energy use by up to 40%.

Heart attack and liver cancer early warning system powered by AI and nanotech

The system detects biomarkers for life-threatening diseases, such as heart attacks and cancer, enabling timely medical intervention.

A marker pen loaded with pufferfish toxin could help treat chronic pain

Scientists have developed a marker pen to deliver tetrodotoxin, a powerful neurotoxin found in pufferfish, to treat severe skin pain.

Light-activated therapy and antibiotics join forces to improve in situ cancer vaccines

Scientists integrate light therapy and antibiotics into a single platform to help the body create its own tumor vaccine.

Blocking a key gut enzyme could help treat obesity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVmxe6gvhIc Scientists have discovered a new way to tackle obesity by blocking a gut enzyme that helps absorb fat. The enzyme, called SOAT2, plays a role in packaging cholesterol and fatty acids for absorption. When researchers...

Plant-based hydrogel harvests water from air, addressing global water scarcity

A new hydrogel extracts water from the air, offering a sustainable alternative to bottled water and addressing global water shortages.

Rank	Title	Position last week	Change	Weeks in the Top 40
1	Novel Highly Conductive and Transparent Graphene‐Based Conductors	–	–	1
2	Flexible, Angle‐Independent, Structural Color Reflectors Inspired by Morpho Butterfly Wings	–	–	1
3	A Leavening Strategy to Prepare Reduced Graphene Oxide Foams	–	–	1
4	Electrostatically Self‐Assembled Nonconjugated Polyelectrolytes as an Ideal Interfacial Layer for	–	–	1
5	Solution‐Processed Small Molecule‐Polymer Blend Organic Thin‐Film Transistors with Hole Mobili	–	–	1
6	N‐Heterocyclic Carbazole‐Based Hosts for Simplified Single‐Layer Phosphorescent OLEDs with Hig	–	–	1
7	Glass Nanopillar Arrays with Nanogap‐Rich Silver Nanoislands for Highly Intense Surface Enhanced R	–	–	1
8	Nanopillar Arrays: Glass Nanopillar Arrays with Nanogap‐Rich Silver Nanoislands for Highly Intense	–	–	1
9	Patterned Functional Carbon Fibers from Polyethylene	–	–	1
10	Flexible Nanocomposite Generator Made of BaTiO3 Nanoparticles and Graphitic Carbons	–	–	1
11	Silk Materials – A Road to Sustainable High Technology	–	–	1
12	Full Visible Range Covering InP/ZnS Nanocrystals with High Photometric Performance and Their Applica	–	–	1
13	Near‐Infrared Light‐Triggered, Targeted Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells by Aptamer Gated Nanovehic	–	–	1
14	New Host Material for High‐Performance Blue Phosphorescent Organic Electroluminescent Devices	–	–	1
15	Path‐Guided Wrinkling of Nanoscale Metal Films	–	–	1
16	Angle‐Independent Reflectors: Flexible, Angle‐Independent, Structural Color Reflectors Inspired	–	–	1
17	Solution‐Processed Metallic Conducting Polymer Films as Transparent Electrode of Optoelectronic De	–	–	1
18	Ferroelectric Nonvolatile Nanowire Memory Circuit Using a Single ZnO Nanowire and Copolymer Top Laye	–	–	1
19	Solution Processed MoO3 Interfacial Layer for Organic Photovoltaics Prepared by a Facile Synthesis M	–	–	1
20	Rod‐Coating: Towards Large‐Area Fabrication of Uniform Reduced Graphene Oxide Films for Flexible	–	–	1
21	Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Biocompatibility and Drug Delivery	–	–	1
22	Cyclic Electrodeposition of PtCu Alloy: Facile Fabrication of Highly Porous Platinum Electrodes	–	–	1
23	Peptides as Targeting Elements and Tissue Penetration Devices for Nanoparticles	–	–	1
24	Whitesides’ Group: Writing a Paper	–	–	1
25	Hole and Electron Extraction Layers Based on Graphene Oxide Derivatives for High‐Performance Bulk	–	–	1
26	Paper‐Based, Capacitive Touch Pads	–	–	1
27	Graphene and Graphene Oxide: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications	–	–	1
28	Cross‐Linked Multifunctional Conjugated Polymers Prepared by In Situ Electrochemical Deposition fo	–	–	1
29	Large Scale Monodisperse Hexagonal Arrays of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxides Nanodots: A Facile Block	–	–	1
30	Facile Synthesis of a Large Quantity of Graphene by Chemical Vapor Deposition: an Advanced Catalyst	–	–	1
31	Co‐Evaporated Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with >6.0% Efficiency	–	–	1
32	Bithiophene Imide and Benzodithiophene Copolymers for Efficient Inverted Polymer Solar Cells	–	–	1
33	Fluoroalkyl Silane Modified Silicone Rubber/Nanoparticle Composite: A Super Durable, Robust Superhyd	–	–	1
34	Band Structure Engineering at Heterojunction Interfaces via the Piezotronic Effect	–	–	1
35	Flexible Control of Block Copolymer Directed Self‐Assembly using Small, Topographical Templates: P	–	–	1
36	Carbon Fibers: Patterned Functional Carbon Fibers from Polyethylene (Adv. Mater. 18/2012)	–	–	1
37	Direct Attachment of Microbial Organisms to Material Surfaces Through Sequence‐Specific DNA Hybrid	–	–	1
38	Self‐Assembled Peptide Amphiphile Micelles Containing a Cytotoxic T‐Cell Epitope Promote a Prote	–	–	1
39	The Electrode’s Effect on the Stability of Organic Transistors and Circuits	–	–	1
40	Resistive Switching WOx‐Au Core‐Shell Nanowires with Unexpected Nonwetting Stability Even when S	–	–	1