Researchers make a fiber out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell.
Advanced Materials
Growing nanosheets for supercapacitor electrodes
Professor X. W. Lou and co-workers report a new method to grow nanosheets on conductive substrates as a conductive agent-free electrode for supercapacitors.
Highly stable graphene-based ultrathin films: a covalent protocol
Chinese scientists have shown how to integrate highly stable graphene-based multilayered film via a novel covalent-based protocol.
Seeing the Light? Making Sense of Disorder in Polymer Opals
A new hyperspectral goniometry technique, to measure 3D angular scattering of light, shows scattering from polymer opals is anisotropic.
Naturally occurring fungus nanoparticles have potential for cancer therapy
Naturally occurring bioactive nanoparticles derived from a carnivorous fungus could have potential for application in cancer therapy.
Ames Laboratory scientists develop indium-free organic light-emitting diodes
US researchers have discovered new ways of using a well-known polymer in organic light emitting diodes.
New large-area nanoribbon fabrics
The fabrication and properties of large-area fabrics made from ribbons, themselves made from CdSe quantum-dot nanoparticles, are discussed in new research.
Mimicking the adhesion of the tree frog toe pad
New work demonstrates the interplay between surface patterns and the wetting properties of a fluid for safer locomotion on wet surfaces.
Using nanocrystals to predict metal fatigue
New work from researchers in Germany shows how light-emitting nanocrystals can reveal damage to material.
New editors at the Advanced Materials journals
Several journals in the Advanced Materials family have new editors, including Advanced Functional Materials and Advanced Energy Materials.
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