Groll, Gbureck and co-workers design a new material strategy that shows significantly improved wet adhesion of bone adhesives.
Melt-Processed Semiconducting Polymer Blends for Flexible Devices
A collaborative team of researchers at Purdue University and the University of California Santa Cruz have reported a strategy that overcomes the issue of solvent by employing a melt-processing technique.
Salt Drives Directional Particle Transport
Directional motion and transport can be achieved using a salt concentration gradient and an appropriately designed self‐assembling system, without substantial synthetic effort or a matrix.
Cancer Immunotherapy and Nanotechnology: Taking the Best from Two Worlds
Researchers are applying nanotechnology to cancer immunotherapy toward the development of nanocarriers for delivery of cancer vaccines and chemo-immunotherapies.
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: The Future of Bio-Applications of Two Dimensional Materials
The majority of the developed bio-systems based on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides are reviewed in Small.
Frozen: Soil Remediation Below Zero Degrees
Soil remediation after an environmental disaster is literally a matter of rescuing an entire ecosystem from the ground up.
Switching Liquid Repellent Surfaces
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, USA, have now revealed a magnetically transformable surface that can reversibly switch between the lotus and the pitcher plant modes
Special Issue: Fracture and Fatigue
This special issue of Advanced Engineering Materials covers different aspects of brittle fracture and fatigue of traditional and advanced materials.
How to Calibrate your Random Walk
A self-avoiding random walk simulator for branched polymers allows to compare experimental data with simulation results.
Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine
A special issue in Macromolecular Bioscience covers several promising approaches to tailor and control the properties and functions of polymers for medical applications.