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Advanced Materials Top 40 for August 16, 2012
Aerographite continues to dominate the Advanced Materials top 40 as it goes into its record-breaking 3rd week at number 1.
Snowballing Radical Generation
Klaus Tauer and co-workers (Golm, Germany) report the discovery of an unusually rapid and high-yielding emulsion polymerization reaction that does not follow zero-one kinetics.
Outsourcing in Academia: the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials model
Interview with Joachim Kohn, director of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, on the center’s innovative model and research outsourcing.
Advanced Energy Materials Top 40 for August 10, 2012
René Janssen, Paul Blom, Jan Hummelen and collaborators top the inaugural Advanced Energy Materials Top 40.
Printing Electronics: High-Speed Transistors with Electrochemical Gating
Researchers show that solid polymer electrolytes can be used as the gating insulator for printed electronics, contrary to accepted thinking.
Quick and Safe Quantum Dots
Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a method to generate an entire library of safe quantum dots quickly and efficiently.
Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering, SI Version
Callister and Rethwisch's Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering 4th Edition continues to take the integrated approach to the organization of topics. That is, one specific structure, characteristic, or property type at a time is discussed for all...
Cleaning up oil spills with graphene sponges
Rodney Ruoff and co-workers demonstrate the potential of graphene sponges as recyclable absorbents for cleaning up oil spills.
A New Playground for Particle Design
Researchers from the University of Jena (Germany) designed glycopolymeric materials with tailored properties to independently study the parameters that impact cellular uptake.