A brand new strategy for fabricating organic solid fluorescent materials containing aggregation-caused quenching luminogens.
Electrically conductive graphene fibers to replace metal?
Researchers produced chemically doped graphene fibers with excellent electrical conductivity via a chemical doping strategy.
Uniform Hydrogel Nanowires with Anisotropic Swelling
Researchers describe a size-controlled hydrogel nanowire based on poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and N,N’-methylenebis(acrylamide).
Solar Trees – Semitransparent, Flexible, Organic Solar Cells
A team of researchers from the U.K. and Germany present the technology behind an exciting phase of solar cell technology: solar trees.
Best of Advanced Energy Materials – July
Take a look at the great cover images from the July issues and top five most accessed articles this month.
Light-driven soft robot mimics caterpillar locomotion in natural scale
Scientists have now created a light-driven soft micro robot to mimic caterpillar locomotion in natural scale.
Impact of size and loading direction on the strength of architected lattice materials
Researchers from KIT show that the strength of polymer-alumina core-shell composite microlattices doubles when their size is scaled down by 50%.
Scaffold-free tissue engineering to create a human neural tissue construct
This new tissue engineering approach may be useful to establish a technology for regenerative medicine and drug discovery using the patient’s own neurons.
Thermally switchable bottle-neck pores for antimicrobial dyes release
A prototype theranostic device based on thermally triggered release of a fluorescent antibiotic from polymer coated porous silicon films is developed.
Architectural control and process limitations of porous bioceramics
Researchers optimized then evaluated the reliability and robustness of a bioceramic manufacturing process based on the impregnation of 3D-printed mold.