Using thermosresponsive polymers to keep buildings cool.

Using thermosresponsive polymers to keep buildings cool.
Kunio Kimura et al. at Okayama University make needles, spheres & nanofibre networks by changing the copolymerisation conditions of rigid aromatic polymers.
Aside from the classical Gaussian intensity profiles, unconventional laser beam shapes open up new perspectives for technologically relevant areas such as deep-hole drilling, photopolymerization, and nanopatterning.
John Texter (Eastern Michigan University) reviews in an authoritative and clear manner the rapidly growing field of anion recognition materials derived from imidazolium based polymers.
Entrepreneurship in materials: interview with Chris Yakacki founder of shape memory polymer biomedical devices maker Medshape
A new form of dental adhesives, containing bisphosphonate and bisphosponic acid, improves the ability to etch enamel and increases stability in water.
Henning Sirringhaus, Tomo Sakanoue, and Jui-Fen Chang discuss the physics governing electronic transport in high-mobility organic semiconductors.
Enzymatic etching used to build nano- and microscale surface topologies.
The emission of polymer distributed feedback lasers can be tuned by integrating nonlinear optical organic molecules.
Most downloaded papers from the physica status solidi family spanning subjects such as organic semiconductor interfaces by Norbert Koch and much more.