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Advanced Materials
A Multi-Functional Self-Healing Hydrogel
The new self-healing hydrogel can recover its functionalities after being cut, without external stimuli.
Graphitic Carbon Nitride Derivatives for Cryopreservation
In Advanced Materials, researchers report for the first time the application of graphitic carbon nitride derivatives for cryopreservation of biological systems.
Repeating Structures: Dynamic Self-assembly as a Mass-Fabrication Technology
Researchers from South Korea report a dynamic self-assembly technology to fabricate repeating structures from magnetic particles.
3D Printing with a Silicone Paste
Researchers achieved 3D printing of flexible silicone rubber structures through combining water with solid and liquid forms of silicone into a pasty ink.
Transferable Semiconductor Stickers
Scientists at LMU Munich and FSU Jena have developed organic semiconductor nanosheets, which can easily be removed from a growth substrate and placed on other substrates.
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Inspired by Steller’s jay, researchers produce angle-independent, structurally colored materials composed of amorphous arrays of fine spherical silica colloidal particles.
Cyclodextrin Films with Fast Solvent Transport and Shape-Selective Permeability
Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology design a high-performance filtration membrane made exclusively of cyclodextrin.
2D Chalcogenide Nanoplate Assemblies for Thermoelectric Applications
Sb2Te3 nanoplates decorated with two-dimensional chalcogenide self-assembled Ag, with spiral growth.
3D Printing a Tactile Sensor on a Fingertip
Complex multi-material tactile sensors can be printed in situ; a new route toward the biointegration of various sensors in wearable electronics.
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