The 2017 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) took place in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from November 26 – December 1. This year’s conference featured 55 technical symposia, eleven tutorial sessions, four poster sessions, and 241 exhibitors. The...
EUROMAT2017 Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece
This years’ EUROMAT2017 conference took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, 17-22 September.
Repeating Structures: Dynamic Self-assembly as a Mass-Fabrication Technology
Researchers from South Korea report a dynamic self-assembly technology to fabricate repeating structures from magnetic particles.
Micro and Nanorobots to the Rescue!
Micro/nanorobots to the rescue for environmental and medical applications.
Highlights of the MRS Fall Meeting 2016, Boston
Society is at a crossroads with many topics such as sustainability, energy, medicine, and healthcare. Material science offers many solutions to these problems.
META 2016 – 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics
A report from the META 2016 conference, held from 25 to 28 July in Torremolinos, Spain.
Advanced Optical Materials – April Issue Covers
The latest issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now available. You can sign up to access all Advanced Optical Materials articles right here! These articles were highlighted on the covers of the Advanced Optical Materials April issue: Morpho Butterflies Morpho...
Biomolecule tracking with gold nanoparticles
Researchers from Texas, USA, and Spain, used the technique multiphoton plasmonic lithography (MPPL) to achieve immobilization of bovine serum albumin hydrogels on a single gold nanotriangle (AuNT).
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Steady progress turns multi-wavelength quantum cascade laser arrays into a powerful versatile source for next-generation spectroscopy and stand-off detection systems.
Switchable dielectric properties of an organic salt
An organic salt is observed to undergo switching of the dielectric constant in response to temperature.