Zinc oxide, nanostructures, and magnetic doping – all these in our January’s physics highlights.
Hyperuniform disordered photonic materials with a complete band gap
Due to their unique properties these fascinating materials are predicted to possess a complete photonic bandgap without any long-range order.
Switched on when needed – the word of latent catalysts
Latent catalysts allow for controlling the onset of polymerization exactly where and when needed.
How to Prevent Dewetting of Liquid Thin Films?
A network of polymer crystalline fibrils generated in situ during spin-coating suppresses effectively dewetting of the diluted polymer solution.
NIST publishes new standards for bioscaffolds based on cell shapes
Scientists create method to classify how cells are shaped in different environments.
The week in research: February 5th 2014
A roundup of the latest materials science research from the past week.
Free Access: Best of Macros 2013 now available
The best articles of the Macromolecular Journals have been chosen for 2013.
Graeme Moad on the status of the RAFT dilemma
Developments in understanding the mechanism and kinetics of dithiobenzoate-mediated RAFT polymerization from 2006 to 2013 are critically assessed.
Drawing chemical sensors on paper with a flexible toy pencil
Research team at Northwestern University show that chemical sensors capable of detecting toxic vapors can be drawn with a toy pencil on paper.
iCVD: a versatile technique for surface science
Initiator chemical vapour deposition (iCVD) is an elegant and versatile technique with applications ranging from biotechnology to microelectronics.