Making methanol for use as a renewable energy carrier.
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A transparent and breathable microfluidic contact lens that could help to diagnose and treat eye disease is developed.
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Building Functional Bio-Nanostructures Using “Protein Bricks” [Video]
A team of researchers construct spider-silk-based “Protein Bricks” with on-demand shape and function for biomedical applications.
Skin-Mounted Microfluidics Analyze Biomarkers in Sweat
A wearable soft microfluidic device with sequentially filling reservoirs can collect, store, and analyze sweat in situ from almost any part of the body.
Professor Helmuth Möhwald 1946-2018
The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces mourns for the loss of a long-standing founding director.
Flexible Brain-Machine Interface
High-density stretchable electrode grids based on a material that can resolve high spatiotemporal neural signals from the surface of the cortex in freely moving rats with stable recording quality during 3 months of implantation.
Chloride and Plasma: An Antibacterial Match?
A team of Chinese researchers investigated the plasma-induced inactivation behavior of several bacteria without and with the presence of chloride.
Artificial Intelligence Models New Functional Materials
Artificial intelligence is used to analyze the parameters for creating self-cleaning, superhydrophobic surfaces, and to generate a model for optimizing the experimental conditions.
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Wrinkle-Free Graphene [Video]
Graphene grown on Cu(111) foils is a step toward wrinkle-free graphene production for electronic devices application.
Self-Sensing Polymer Composites
Strain-sensitive ‘smart’ materials that can monitor their own strain and internal damage state.
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