Materials news, November 2011

Fraunhofer ILT wins award for additive manufacturing

North Rhine-Westphalia’s 2011 Innovation Award in the 'Innovation' category has been awarded to Professor Reinhart Poprawe, Director of the Fraunhofer Inst

On the road to plasmonics

Graphene foam outperforms modern gas sensors

Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channels

Microfluidic device prints wax directly onto cotton

New magnetic-field-sensitive alloy

Highly efficient method for creating flexible, transparent electrodes

Counting molecules

New strategy could lead to dose reduction in x-ray imaging

Vinyl ester composite protects Indonesian power plant structure

A power company in Indonesia has employed a composite liner based on Vipel® F010 vinyl ester from AOC to protect the surface of a new concrete aeration pit

Mystery shed on Stem cell metabolism

One stone, two birds

Bone idol

Fluorescent sensoring

Giving fuel cells a boost

Oxford Instruments launches educational site

Erbium nanowire material enhances energy technologies

Introducing the Materials Today newscast

Researchers turn troublesome molecules to their advantage

Cramming 2 million nanorods into single cancer cell

Melding carbon nanotubes and DNA

Electric nanovehicle

Researching graphene nanoelectronics for a post-silicon world

Researchers gain insight into Haber-Bosch process

Haysite offers pultruded laboratory fume hood panels

Haysite Reinforced Plastics now offers its H193/H232 Pultruded Laboratory Fume Hood Panels in custom length sheets for application in laboratory fume hood

Magnetized moon rocks

Are electron tweezers possible?

Researchers ink nanostructures with tiny ‘soldering iron’

Model of enzyme’s structure could spur new therapies

Engineers solve energy puzzle

Study compares fundamental techniques for doping graphene sheets

Unique bipolar compounds enhance organic electronics

Nano-tech makes medicine greener

Molecular knots

The world's most efficient flexible OLED

New microscope for the next generation of microchips

New hybrid technology could bring 'quantum information systems'

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New age battery

Wide wavelength solar cells

New approach to overcome next-generation superconductor hurdle

Improved characterization of nanoparticle clusters

Microwires improve performance of light-emitting diodes

Non-invasive current stimulation improves sight