Advanced Optical Materials has made a selection of the best articles from 2014 available to download for free.
MIP sensors for direct optical detection
Researchers from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Singapore jointly developed a new type of MIP-based material for optical sensors.
Light sensors for artificial limbs
Researchers shine light into muscle to detect instructions for artificial limbs.
Artificial evolution for medical applications
2014 Karl Heinz Beckurts Award goes to Prof. Dr. Andreas Marx.
Advanced Optical Materials – November Issue Covers
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Photo-induced anomalous deformation of PNIPAM gels
PNIPA gels are hybridized with uniaxially aligned inorganic liquid crystalline nanosheet and adsorbed with a dye deform anisotropically by photo-irradiation.
Job listing: Assistant Editor, Hoboken, NJ
Wiley seeks assistant editor for polymer journals portfolio.
Book review: Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
Professor Alexander Zelikin, Aarhus University reviews Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies from the RSC.
Acid-resistant epoxy resin trips up decomposition
An acid resistant, terphenyl-based liquid crystalline epoxy resin is described by Prof. Miyuki Harada’s team at Kansai University.
A new trick from liquid crystalline elastomers – responsive cell culture scaffolds
Biocompatible, biodegradable and porous LC elastomers were used as viable, soft scaffolds for cell growth and proliferation in a spatial (3D) fashion.