Natural fatty acid eutetic mixtures offer an inexpensive, chemically stable and biocompatible gating material alternative for NIR-triggered drug release nanoparticles for cancer therapy.
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Magnetogenetics is a promising approach manipulating cellular functions in tissues and organisms with high spatial and temporal resolution.
Take Heart: Self-Powered Wearable Sensor for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
A flexible self-powered ultrasensitive pulse sensor (SUPS) based on a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is presented.
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.
High-Performance Carbon Quantum Dots for Warm WLEDs
Highly efficient, red-emissive carbon quantum dots (R-CQDs) with a quantum yield of 53% are prepared and a CQD-phosphors-based warm white-light-emitting diode (WLED) is realized for the first time.
Performance Enhancement of Polymer Resins by Bioinspired Dynamic Bonding
High hardness/rigidity compromises the extensibility and flexibility in state-of-the-art load-bearing polymer composites, including dental-resin composites. A look at an alternative.
Biomimetic Apatite Formation
There is a growing body of evidence that a secondary structure of highly negatively charged proteins can play an important role in localizing calcium and phosphate ions to promote the formation of the HAp deposits.
Improved Fabrication Method for Flexible Spinel-Ferrite-Based Devices
Chunrui Ma, Ming Liu, and colleagues develop a practical way to transfer flexible, centimeter-scale, single-crystalline spinel ferrite oxide thin films onto flexible substrates for applications in flexible and wearable electronics.
EUROMAT2017 Conference Celebrates Its 15th Edition
This years’ EUROMAT2017 conference will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, 17-22 September.
Materials Research at RIKEN-CEMS
Issue 25/2017 of Advanced Materials is a special issue featuring research carried out at RIKEN-Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS).
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