Riccardo d’Agostino, Editor-in-Chief of Plasma Processes and Polymers, tells MaterialsViews about the new debate section in the journal.
Micro-medics
Micro-sized capsules with iron nanoparticles embedded in them could be used as smart drug-delivery systems to treat a range of serious medical conditions.
Muscle Power: Piezoelectric Nanodevices Making Electricity
What if a nanodevice, implanted in your body, could power itself by harnessing the mechanical energy of your own moving muscles?
MaterialsViews Interviews: Karen Gleason
MaterialsViews catches up with Karen Gleason, Associate Dean of Engineering at MIT, to talk CVD, scientific jigsaws, and The Good Doctor.
Concepts of Nanochemistry—Nanoscience as Part of Undergraduate Studies?
Nikolaus Korber recommends “Concepts of Nanochemistry”, a “fun to read” textbook with high didactic quality addressed to university teachers, students, and the interested general public.
Advanced Materials is now indexed in MEDLINE
The leading weekly materials science journal Advanced Materials has been chosen for indexing in MEDLINE, the database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
MaterialsViews Interviews: Jaephil Cho
Jaephil Cho, Dean of the Interdisciplinary School of Green Energy in Ulsan, discusses energy research in South Korea.
Carbon-Based Materials from Versatile Graphite Building Blocks
New work by Compton and Nguyen summarizes currently known strategies for preparing advanced materials from dispersions of stable graphene oxide, highly reduced graphene oxide, and graphene.