C. Fan and co-workers tune the crystallinity of hematite nanorods for high-efficiency photoelectrochemical water splitting
International Year of Light: Diketopyrrolopyrroles
This month’s International Year of Light article reviews the synthesis, reactivity, and optical properties of a variety of diketopyrrolopyrroles dyes.
MRS Spring 2015 Preview: Final show in San Francisco
An outlook to the forthcoming MRS Spring Meeting, to be held from April 6-10, 2015 for the last time in San Francisco, California.
Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials Symposium
The first symposium in Australia dedicated to the subject of 2D nanomaterials research, 2D15, took place in Melbourne on the 10th-11th March, 2015.
Flexible Bragg Reflectors for Optical Applications
Spanish group creates materials that combine the intense structural colour achievable with inorganic materials with the mechanical properties of polymers.
International Year of Light: Black Silicon Photovoltaics
This month’s International Year of Light article reviews the optoelectronic properties of black silicon and gives guidelines how to optimize the relevant physical parameters.
Flexible transparent electrodes made from nanowire networks
Shu-Hong Yu and his research group from USTC propose a new nanowire assembly strategy to fabricate flexible transparent electrodes.
ChemNanoMat opens for submissions
ChemNanoMat is the latest journal to be launched by Wiley-VCH and opened for submissions at the beginning of November.
Controlling the oxygen content in nanometer thick oxide thin films
A MIT research group led by Prof. Harry L. Tuller has attempted to control the oxygen content of oxide thin films in situ through electrochemical methods.
Enhancing photocatalysis with strontium titanate
Densely aligned SrTiO3-modified rutile TiO2 heterojunction photocatalysts have been crafted by a Chinese/American collaboration.