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Advanced Functional Materials
Engineering an artificial metalloenzyme for treating hyperuricemia with tolerable toxic side effect
Professor Xiaogang Qu’s team engineered an artificial metalloenzyme for efficient and friendly ERT of hyperuricemia.
Lead halide perovskite materials for high-performance energy harvesting devices
Ding and colleagues have fabricated a hybrid piezoelectric nanogenerator based on a composite of piezoelectric formamidinium lead halide perovskite (FAPbBr3) nanoparticles and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer.
Artificial Columnar Nacre: A Superoleophobic Material for Underwater Applications
Researchers have prepared artificial columnar nacre based on montmorillonite/hydroxyethylcellulose, with excellent underwater low adhesion and superoleophobicity.
Paper-based Surfaces with Extreme Wettabilities for Novel Microfluidic Devices
Open channel, paper-based microfluidic devices allow for the localization, manipulation, and transport of high- and low- surface tension liquids.
Graphene Reinforced Carbon Nanotube Networks for Strain Sensing Application
A wearable strain sensor is developed that could sensitively respond to cyclic small strain.
Patterning Solution – Direct patterning of ZnO thin films
Researchers in Troyes, France have developed a cheap and efficient method of direct patterning ZnO films, using laser interferential lithography to selectively remove ZnO in well-controlled patterns, without the use of a photoresist.
Light-induced color change in the sapphirinid copepods
The males of certain species of copepods, small marine crustaceans, produce some of the most spectacular colors in nature.
Red-Blood-Cell-Mimetic Nanoparticles against Breast Cancer
A nanosized drug delivery system is developed, which significantly inhibits tumor growth and metastasis formation of breast cancer when loaded with the drug paclitaxel.
Strong Cooperation in Soft Matter – Chinese and Dutch Researchers meet in Nijmegen
From October 7 to October 9 Chinese and Dutch researchers presented their research at the Netherlands-China Joint Workshop on Functional Soft Matter.
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