The 2013 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation were announced at this year’s SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco.
Advanced Optical Materials publishes Issue 2
The second issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now online, including twelve research articles covering all aspects of light-matter interactions.
Size Effects of Silver Nanoparticles
Size affects the deposition of silver nanoparticles onto polyamide fabrics, Portuguese researchers have found.
Joseph DeSimone: liberal arts education shapes science startup founders
Joseph DeSimone talks to us about materials science startups and how liberal arts eduction shapes an entrepreneur.
Nanoscale biomaterials: cutting edge bone therapy
New work seeks to control the growth mechanisms of calcium phosphate nanobiomaterials of monetite.
All-organic gas barrier thin films fabricated from graphene oxide/polymer
“Nanobrick wall” blocks oxygen and carbon dioxide transmission, and has high hydrogen selectivity.
Cooling semiconductors using only light
Nanyang researchers take group II-VI semiconductor cadmium sulfide from 20 to -20 degrees C in major breakthrough.
PEDTT-based conducting co-polymer films
Researchers fabricate conducting films using aqueous dispersions of poly(EDTT-co-EDOT)/PSS and (poly(EDTT-co-EDOT-MeOH)/PSS).
Ratiometric fluorescence sensing
Researchers from Coimbra (Portugal), Wuppertal (Germany), and Santa Barbara (USA) present a cationic fluorene-thiophene diblock copolymer for ratiometric sensing of both halide ions and DNA.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for December 2012
We present the most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals in December.