A multiple core–shell 3D printing method has been developed to fabricate soft, stretchable, fibre-based, capacitive strain sensors. The sensors can be readily integrated into conventional clothing and used in gait monitoring.
Breakthrough in thermoelectric materials
Researchers created a novel and much more efficient thermoelectric alloy by using liquid-flow assisted sintering.
Imaging the mechanical response of nanostructured composites
An X-ray ptychography study follows the destruction of a microscale composite during compression in unprecedented detail.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – Feb. 2015
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Applying microscale superhydrophobicity to cooling solutions
A technique has been developed to fabricate hierarchical micro- and nano-structures on copper substrates, for heat transfer applications.
Direct Carbon Fuel Cells: An Ultra-Low Emission Technology for Power Generation
A group of CSIRO researchers provide a broad overview of direct carbon fuel cells.
Superconductivity in layered iron germanide
Yang Zou and co-workers have found evidence for superconductivity in YFe2Ge2 with an unusual power-law temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity.
Advanced Optical Materials – October Issue Covers
Check out the articles highlighted on the covers of the latest issue of Advanced Optical Materials.
Material to improve solid-oxide fuel cells
Unusual compound is the first metallic oxygen ion conductor of its kind, as well as the first that is active at room temperature.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for April 2014
We present the most downloaded papers of the pss journal family from April 2014.