How a light-powered snail is addressing scalability in robotics.
Catalytic Gold Rush: Ultrathin 2D Metal Nanomaterials
Gold “nanoseaweeds” exhibit high efficiency as heterogeneous nanocatalysts and peroxidase-mimicking nanoenzymes.
Bioinspired and Biobased Materials
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics highlights the latest in bioinspired polymers research.
Complete Freedom for Direct Writing Liquid Metal Patterns
Prof. Jungchul Lee reports a four degrees-of-freedom direct writing technique for liquid metal patterns.
Blink Twice to See This
The future of collaborative intelligence: a biomimetic lens that can zoom in and out at the blink of an eye.
A Robotic Hand With a Human Touch
Fabricating a 3D-printed architectured robotic body with deformable lightweight cellular structures.
Magnetic Fields and Nanoparticles to Improve Cancer Treatment
How magnetic targeting of drugs and/or magnetically induced release of drugs can be harnessed to improve the treatment of cancer.
Minimizing Light Loss in Solar Cells [Video]
A fluoropolymer-based antireflective coating leads to high power conversion efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells.
Plasma Improves Adhesion of 3D Printing
Scientists from the University of La Rioja in Spain showed how polyoxymethylene (POM) can be an excellent engineering material for 3D printing when an atmospheric pressure air plasma treatment is applied on a polycarbonate (PC)‐printing base.
A Flexible Patch to Repair a “Broken” Heart
Stretchable extracellular matrix patch enhances stem cell delivery for post‐myocardial infarction repair.