Materials chemistry news, February 2015

New electrolyte rids batteries of short-circuiting fibers

Dendrites create fire hazards and can limit the ability of batteries to power our smart phones and store renewable energy for a rainy day.

27 February 2015

A new initiative involving Elsevier’s engineering journals, editors, authors and referees – titled Engineering Advances.

26 February 2015Joe D'Angelo

Scientists are interested in using gels to deliver drugs designed to release their payload over a specified time period.

24 February 2015

University of Pennsylvania researchers have made an advance in manufacturing one such material, molybdenum disulphide.

24 February 2015

23 February 2015Eleonora Presani

New type of superconducting transistor that can be switched reversibly between on and off positions using light irradiation.

19 February 2015Laurie Donaldson

Novel material for efficient plasmonic devices in mid-IR range.

18 February 2015Laurie Donaldson

Scientists have shown that gold nanotubes have many applications in fighting cancer.

13 February 2015

13 February 2015Baptiste Gault

Welcome to the Virtual Microscope, the integrated browser based slide viewer that provides access to high resolution whole slide images.

9 February 2015Zara Preston

The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to the ground-breaking chemical engineer Dr Robert Langer.

5 February 2015

Materials Today lead the way to make it simple for authors to publicly share peer-reviewed, curated, formatted, indexed, citable raw research data.

4 February 2015Baptiste Gault

We’re celebrating the International Year of Light with a video contest where we ask you to tell us what light means to you.

4 February 2015Zara Preston