AMI presents the impressive covers of its current issue, highlighting electrochemistry, acoustic streaming, superhydrophobicity, and precision APT.
High-Entropy Alloys: Potential Candidates for High-Temperature Applications
New work reviews advancements in the field of HEAs as a potential emerging material for high-temperature applications.
The Protein Corona on Nanoparticles as viewed from a Nanoparticle Sizing Perspective
A biomolecular adsorption layer (corona) forms on essentially all nanoparticles immersed in biological fluids, and governs their interactions with the biological environment. Key aspects of protein corona formation and its structure and dynamics have yet remained elusive and call for further investigations.
Natural Fatty Acids as Gating Materials for Near-Infrared-Triggered Drug Release
Natural fatty acid eutetic mixtures offer an inexpensive, chemically stable and biocompatible gating material alternative for NIR-triggered drug release nanoparticles for cancer therapy.
Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Materials Optimisation and PEC Water Splitting
Triboelectric nanogenerators are an exciting frontier in small-scale applications, converting low-frequency mechanical energy into an alternating current.
Defect Engineering an Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst
University of Waterloo researchers develop a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst based on graphene that can recharge zinc-air batteries more efficiently.
Hydrogen Trapping in Automotive Martensitic Advanced High-Strength Steels
Electrochemical permeation experiments are used to investigate hydrogen diffusivity and trapping characteristics in different grades of MS-AHSS steel.
The Evolution of Inorganic Halide Perovskites in Optoelectronics
An outline of the recent progress in the syntheses of IMH perovskites is provided.
Reducing Light-Induced Burn-In in Polymer Solar Cells
Jordi Matorell and co-workers achieve a longer lifetime of polymer solar cells by addressing the issue and mechanism of UV-induced “burn-in”, a phenomenon linked to rapid degradation of electron transport.
Hierarchically Porous Carbon Fabric for Highly-Sensitive Electrochemical Sensors
Functional porous carbon fabrics were presented with hierarchically porous structures of meso-pores in nanoscale nesting on fiber networks with cylindrical pores in micrometer scale.