A researcher has argued that fuel cells are inefficient because they’re using the wrong catalyst material.
Deceptive Viruses Trick Their Way Into Cells
Biomineralization-based virus shell engineering for functional modification of viruses to be used in cancer virotherapy or for vaccines
Energy Autonomous Micro and Nano Systems
This resource provides a detailed overview of the fundamentals and latest developments in the field of Energy autonomous Microsystems. An in-depth study of the applications, in the fields of: * health and usage monitoring * medical implants * home automation...
Rapid Microfluidic Sorting for On-chip Capture and Analysis of Single Cells
On-chip culturing and molecular profiling of captured cancer cells using a low-cost, rapid microfluidic cell sorter device
Microsystems
Microdrops and interfaces are now a common feature in most fluidic microsystems, from biology, to biotechnology, materials science, 3D -microelectronics, optofluidics, and mechatronics. On the other hand, the behaviour of droplets and interfaces in today's...
Alternative Catalyst System for Semiconducting Polymers
Researchers from the University of Michigan present a palladium catalyst that can mediate a living, chain-growth polymerization of pi-conjugated monomers.
The Case of the Complexed Charge Carrier: The Mysterious Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells
Dutch researchers present a new theoretical model to explain the better than expected power conversion efficiencies reported for organic solar cells.
Stability and Degradation of Organic and Polymer Solar Cells
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) are a new generation of solar cells with the potential to offer very short energy pay back times, mechanical flexibility and significantly lower production costs compared to traditional crystalline photovoltaic systems. A weakness of...
Handbook of Optical Systems
Written by industrial experts, this six-volume, full-color handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the calculation, layout and understanding of optical systems, combining for the first time theoretical aspects of optical modeling with practical...
15th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems
This book represents a collection of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems. This conference is organized by The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), and will be held...