A new paper introduces a new fabrication method for fullerene-free organic solar cells to help address their limitations and improve production efficiency.
An Old Drug in a New Form: Dithiolethione Prodrug Micelles
Polymeric prodrug micelles for delivery of a dithiolethione drug have been designed and synthesized from amphiphilic diblock copolymers.
Soft biocompatible PEG hydrogels
Soft biocompatible PEG hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties and RGDS-content have been prepared by Löwik et al. using a copper free-click reaction.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – August 2015
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Tuning color – better organic light emitters
Researchers have recently prepared zinc (II) metallopolymers with effective emission color tuning from blue to red, suitable for photonic devices.
Game changer in dip coating: doing more with less
Researchers in France bring about a big-time improvement that makes dip coating simpler, better, and greener.
New composite material enables smaller CO2 sensor
Material scientists at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam have developed a new type of sensor to measure CO2.
The NMR detective: investigating LDPE degradation
Teymouri, Kwamen and Blümich from RWTH Aachen study degradation of LDPE pellets when exposed to air at different temperatures with a desktop NMR machine.
Making large quantities of small silicone spheres
Researchers from the University of Illinois present the first demonstration of a scalable synthetic procedure for crosslinked silicone microspheres.
Probing tumour growth through infrared imaging
Tumour development is closely monitored through infrared emission from copolymer nanoparticles.