Materials comment, July 2014

Graphene oxide composite fibers muscle in

actuators based on composite fibers comprising aligned reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets and PEDOT: PSS surpass biological muscles

New material that cleans decontaminated water

‘Engineered living material’ that decontaminates pollutants from water

New study explores how polymers go with the flow

Researchers used mechanochemistry to characterize how a polymer chain in solution responds to a sudden acceleration of the solvent flow around it.

New catalyst uses platinum atoms to split water on the cheap

By dispersing single atoms of platinum on a sheet of molybdenum sulphide, researchers have developed an inexpensive catalyst for splitting water.

Supercapacitor carbons