Guest editors Kyung Eun Lee and Sang Ouk Kim present important recent contributions to the field of Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals and discuss how this research field will develop in the coming years.
Electronics
Wearable Tactile Sensors for Haptic Perception
A wearable liquid-embedded microfluidic tactile sensor capable of haptic perception has been prepared.
Noble Metal Nanocrystals with a Clean Surface
Chuanbo Gao and co-workers present a mild, robust and effective strategy to remove capping ligands from noble metal nanocrystals for surface-enhanced Raman scattering and catalytic applications.
Multicolor, Fluorescent Supercapacitor Fibers Light Up the Night
A novel family of colorful fluorescent supercapacitor fibers allows for continuous energy storage in flexible systems used in the dark.
A Unified Model for Hafnium-Oxide-Based Resistive Random Access Memory
Lambert Alff and his team from Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt) in Germany, along with their collaborators, propose a novel unified model for hafnium-oxide resistive random access memory (RRAM) based on the role of oxygen vacancy defects.
Warming Up to Graphene Papers for Personal Thermal Management
Graphene papers provide chemical and mechanical stability, high thermal conductivity and low electrical resistance in the development of personal thermal management systems.
Conductive Metallic Wood Composites
The design and fabrication of a metallic wood composite possessing highly anisotropic electrical and thermal conductivities.
Defect Engineering an Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst
University of Waterloo researchers develop a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst based on graphene that can recharge zinc-air batteries more efficiently.
Battery Power: Electricity and Chemicals from CO2
Of interest to the field of CO2 utilization is the adaptation of the above described energy storage system into one capable of fixing CO2 into a useful product, in this particular case carbon.
Print Your Own Electronic Devices At Home!
The recent progress made in inkjet printed organic transistors for plastic electronics applications is reviewed.
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