Optimizing H- and J-type aggregates significantly improves the power conversion efficiency in bulk-heterojunction solar cells.
Inspired by Nature: Intelligent Nanofiber Composites
Prof. Korley and co-workers explore the design principles used to develop environmentally-responsive materials that serve as release agents, sensors, switches, and actuators.
Stem Cell Manufacturing
A hydrogel coating platform for microcarriers based on interfacial polymerization enables scalable production of mesenchymal stem cells.
Cyclodextrin Films with Fast Solvent Transport and Shape-Selective Permeability
Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology design a high-performance filtration membrane made exclusively of cyclodextrin.
Hydrophobicity the Key to Asymmetric Metal Nanoparticle Synthesis
Creating asymmetric nanoparticles is harder than standard colloidal particle synthesis. Here, hydrophobicity unlocks a variety of metal nanoparticle types.
Electrospun Nanostructures for Chemical and Optical Sensors
Researchers from South Korea and from Italy present recent progress in sensing principles.
Versatile Electronic Skins for Motion Detection of Joints
The human skin is an organ with amazing sensory properties. It can pick up a variety of sensations from its environment. Mimicking those properties in wearable electronics skins would offer a variety of applications for human–machine communication— imagine if you...
The Scent of Recycled Plastic
Young researcher studies the smells of plastic waste used in manufacturing recycled plastics.
2.5D Circuits using Stretchable Interconnects
Several devices using flexible circuit boards were created to demonstrate the possibilities of this technology, showing the ability to create thermoplastic electronic devices.
Organic–Inorganic Interface Simulation for New Material Discoveries
An overview of the viability of different molecular simulation methods and interface force fields, the recent advances in the simulation of protein-surface interactions, and the challenges posed by the current simulation methods to reproduce the exact phenomenon.