This week’s top stories

23 April 2012

Each week on Materials Today.com we’ll reveal which news stories you, the readers, have found most interesting. The top three are...

1. New graphene-based material: Discovery advances graphene-based electronics

2. Shooting at ceramics: Ready, aim, fire, reshape

3. X-rays create a window on glass formation: Visualization of how powder becomes molten glass

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CNT-coated nanofibers help tissue regrow

biocompatible polymer scaffolds coated with carbon nanotubes could provide a vital foothold for regrowing cells

19 May 2020Cordelia Sealy

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Enzymes wait to strike in novel biodegradable plastics

Using embedded enzymes, researchers have produced compostable plastics that break down within a few weeks on exposure to heat and water.

30 April 2021

Current research

Stable and optoelectronic dipeptide assemblies for power harvesting

Volume 30, Pages 10–16Bin Xue, Qi Li, Wen Hu, Linda J.W. Shimon, Pandeeswar Makam, Mingsu Si, Xuehai Yan, Mingjun Zhang, Yi Cao, Rusen Yang, Junbai Li, Ehud Gazit

Percutaneous implantation of ethanol fueled catalytic hydrogel suppresses tumor growth by triggering ferroptosis

Volume 55, Pages 7–20Lei Zhang, Ziliang Dong, Chunjie Wang, Yu Chao, Dongxu Zhao, Yujie Zhu, Zhijuan Yang, Nailin Yang, Yikai Han, Liangzhu Feng, Zhuang Liu

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Plasmon-induced long-lived hot electrons in degenerately doped molybdenum oxides for visible-light-driven photochemical reactions

Volume 55, Pages 21–28Ali Zavabeti, Farjana Haque, Bao Yue Zhang, Qifeng Yao, Lu Chen, Dehong Chen, Yihong Hu, Naresh Pillai, Yongkun Liu, Kibret A. Messalea, Chunhui Yang, Baohua Jia, David M. Cahill, Yongxiang Li, Chris F. McConville, Jian Zhen Ou, Lingxue Kong, Xiaoming Wen, Wenrong Yang

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Acta Student Awards 2021- Apply today!

19 January 2022

Current research

Self-assembly enables simple structure organic photovoltaics via green-solvent and open-air-printing: Closing the lab-to-fab gap

Volume 55, Pages 46–55Jie Lv, Kuan Liu, Zhiwei Ren, Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran, Jiaming Huang, Ying Zhang, Hao Xia, Jafar I. Khan, Dingqin Hu, Cenqi Yan, Jiyeon Oh, Shanshan Chen, Shenglong Chu, Patrick W.K. Fong, Haiyan Chen, Zhengguo Xiao, Changduk Yang, Zhipeng Kan, Frédéric Laquai, Shirong Lu, Gang Li

Current research

Electrochemical swelling induced high material utilization of porous polymers in magnesium electrolytes

Volume 55, Pages 29–36Hui Dong, Alae Eddine Lakraychi, Ye Zhang, Xu Yang, Hongzhi Zheng, Xinpeng Han, Xiaonan Shan, Chuanxin He, Yan Yao