Researchers from the University of Science and Technology Beijing report a wearable self-cleaning/charging power system (SPS) that can harvest electrical energy from falling raindrops.
Advanced Functional Materials
The Shape of Water
A team from China explore the romantic side of materials science
Sending Droplets from Pillar to Post
Dynamic nano and micropillars are able to transport water droplets across a surface.
Gene Therapy: Virus-like Delivery System Takes the Heat out of Melanoma
Targeted viral-based gene therapies come with their own risks. A new gene delivery system mimics viral therapies to infect cancer cells with vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein, with a similar transfection efficiency as the virus itself.
A Reversible Positive Electrode for Lithium and Sodium Ion Batteries
Prof. Nicola Pinna and co-workers prepare a fluoride-based electrode capable of reversible insertion of lithium and sodium ions.
A Smart Skin taking Orders from Human Motions
Smart artificial skin can be applied to the joints of fingers as a wearable tweezer to capture and release of droplets without energy supply or external appliance.
Save the Environment: With Ink-Free Rewritable Paper
Combining the state-of-the-art in photonic crystals, shape memory polymers, and electroactive polymers in a single nanocomposite makes for a zero-energy rewritable paper suitable for long term data storage.
Your Form is in Your DNA: Shape-Memory Hydrogels Based on Nucleic Acid Bridging
Trifold stimuli-responsive shape memory in hydrogels is realized by combining donor-acceptor interaction with G-quadruplexes and DNA base pairing.
Multifunctional Digital Coding Metasurface with Transmission-Reflection-Integrated Performance
A transmission-reflection-integrated multifunctional coding metasurface is proposed, which can control the transmitted and reflected wavefronts simultaneously on both sides of the metasurface interface.
Holograms with Complex Surface Patterning
A method to record polarization holograms with complex hierarchical structures from an isosorbide-based azo molecular glass (IA-Chol).
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