Printable and flexible organic phototransistors with high performance by blending common organic semiconductors with biocompatible polymers.
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Researchers from Peking University demonstrate that a plasmonic contact electrode can enhance the performance of carbon nanotube infrared detectors.
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Adaptive Architecture for Energy-Saving Buildings
Kiri-kirigami structures are the next generation of origami-based reconfigurable mechanical metamaterials for adaptive architecture and energy-saving buildings.
Special Issue Advanced Materials Interfaces: Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
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In a study published in the new journal Advanced Biosystems, scientists from the University of Hong Kong demonstrated that it is possible to use a DNA aptamer split across a tweezer such that the presence of the target protein triggers the DNA tweezer mechanism.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – December 2016
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