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| Saturday, May 13, 2023 |
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Face-down: Gravity's effects on cell movement |
| Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and colleagues in Japan have developed a specially coated, light-responsive surface that helps test how the direction of gravity impacts cell movements. more info >> |
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| Monday, March 30, 2015 |
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Wrapping carbon nanotubes in polymers enhances their performance |
| Scientists at Japan's Kyushu University developed a technique that "exfoliates" aggregated clumps of CNTs and disperses them in solvents. more info >> |
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| Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
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Optimising soft-optoelectronics materials through molecular engineering |
| The molecules used to make optoelectronic devices can be engineered to balance the chemical interactions within them and optimise their properties for specific applications, according to a review paper published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. more info >> |
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| Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
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Perovskites can Improve Fabrication of Ceramic Electronics |
| In a review paper published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, a group of scientists in Japan investigated the potential of replacing metal electrodes in ceramic-based electronics with conductive oxides. more info >> |
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| Monday, January 19, 2015 |
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Wonder Material Silicene Still Stands Just Out of Reach |
| Silicene is the thinnest form of silicon. It is metallic, has graphene-like mobile carriers and can behave like a semiconductor. The wonder material could lead to even smaller electronics but challenges remain in this review published in the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. more info >> |
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| Friday, October 31, 2014 |
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3D Printing Incorporates Quasicrystals for Stronger Manufacturing Products |
| Automotive, aerospace and machinery industries, among others, are resorting more and more to the use of 3D printing methods to produce manufacturing components. more info >> |
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| Monday, July 14, 2014 |
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Nano-sized Silicon Oxide Electrode for Next Generation Lithium Ion Batteries |
| This article published in the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials reports an approach with industrial potential to produce nano-sized composite silicon-based powders as negative electrodes for the next generation lithium ion batteries. more info >> |
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
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Colloidal silicon quantum dots: synthesis and luminescence tuning from the near-UV to the near-IR range |
| In this paper, Ghosh and Shirahata focus on high-QY silicon nanoparticles. It summarizes the peculiarities of their emission, which depends on the preparation method and surface chemistry. more info >> |
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| Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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Japan-Switzerland Announce Publishing Collaboration on Open-access, Advanced Materials Journal |
| Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have signed a 5-year collaborative agreement to co-publish the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). more info >> |
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| Friday, November 8, 2013 |
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World's First Commercial Nanostructured Bulk Metal |
| In a paper published in the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Bhadeshia introduces the world's first bulk nanostructured metal in commercial production. more info >> |
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