The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Special Issue Advanced Materials Interfaces: Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
The first issue 2017 in Advanced Materials Interfaces highlights “Perspectives in Interface Research”.
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: The Future of Bio-Applications of Two Dimensional Materials
The majority of the developed bio-systems based on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides are reviewed in Small.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – December 2016
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Dancing Trees: Dual-Controlled Actuation of Polymer Films
Dancing polymer tree actuation!
Aptamers against Polymeric Surfaces
The group of Prof. Lendlein searched for polymer binding aptamers, which are able to selectively bind to specific material surfaces.
Fight or die? How prokaryotes deal with infections
In their review in BioEssays, Eugene Koonin and Feng Zhang discuss the different outcomes when prokaryotes are infected by a virus.
Nanodroplets for Stretchable Superconducting Circuits
A team of researchers from Australia and China, have developed a family of superconducting liquid metals of GaInSn-alloys and their nanodroplets.
Gamma-Cyclodextrin-Recognizable Hydrogels
Combining the ion-recognition ability of crown ether units and the thermo-induced volume change behavior of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) polymers, different kinds of ion-responsive hydrogels are developed.
Robot Skin with Advanced Gripping Skills
In this Advanced Materials Technologies article, researchers demonstrate for the first time a rapid manufacturing process and taxel geometry to create a large area, all-elastomer robot skin