The unmineralized teeth of the giant keyhole limpet are shown to have mechanical properties similar to those of mineralized mammalian bones.
Bioinspired Extracellular Vesicles for Personalized Drug Delivery
Investigating EV production and purification methods by mimicking the natural release process of EVs in blood capillaries with a bioinspired mechanical microfluidic method.
Wearable Devices using Off-the-Shelf, Plain-Woven Fabrics
Researchers develop a vapor-coating technique to produce wearable electronic devices from conducting-polymer-coated off-the-shelf, plain-woven fabrics.
Novel Harmless Coating Additives
BYK Additives & Instruments introduce new product developments for the coating industry.
High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells Adapted for Mass Production
Novel highly efficient polymer solar cells show great promise for large-scale production.
Programmable Soft Mechanics: Reversibly Switching the Mechanical Properties of Soft Matter
This hydrogel can be programmed to reversibly switch its mechanical properties in response to a simple environmental cue.
All-Aqueous-Printed And Low-Temperature Transistors
Researchers have demonstrated all-aqueous-printed transparent electrodes and semiconducting layers for high performance, low-cost transistors for flexible electronics applications.
How to Get and Keep Citizens Involved in Mobile Crowd Sensing for Water management?
A checklist for citizen science projects was developed based on a review of key success factors from previous projects reported in literature.
Strain as a Key to Applied Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
A new approach was presented to employ external mechanical strain for changing the domain distribution in Mn2Au.
Improving on Nature: Artificial Biofilm Boosts Microbial Fuel Cell
Research on artificial biofilms to enable the integration of electrogenic microorganisms in biofuel cell technology is presented.