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Advanced Materials
Magnetoelectric Robots Target Disease
Salvador Pané and colleagues demonstrate core–shell magnetoelectric nanowires that can be triggered using different magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery to kill cancer cells.
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Shuit-Tong Lee and Lifeng Chi have guest edited an issue of Advanced Materials, which provides an insight into the nanoscience research going on in and around Suzhou.
Watch the Birdie
Multispectral imaging with metasurface pixels using a multiscale fabrication approach.
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A metal–organic framework as a protecting material to preserve antibody recognition is demonstrated for the first time.
Any Way the Wind Blows…
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Contradictory wetting: superlyophobic surfaces
Researchers at Aalto University, in Espoo in Finland, unravel the design principles of unusual dual superlyophobic surfaces in oil–water systems.
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A polymetallodrug that overcomes the side effects of conventional anticancer phototherapy has been synthesized.
Carbon Quantum Dots with Distinct Optical Properties
The first synthesis and demonstration of multicolor bandgap fluorescent CQDs (MCBF-CQDs) is reported.
High-Capacity Aqueous Potassium-Ion Batteries for Large-Scale Energy Storage
Researchers have reported the synthesis of potassium iron (II) hexacyanoferrate dehydrate nanocubes with a high potassium ion content and their application as an electrode material in aqueous electrolyte potassium-ion batteries.
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