Paula Colavita at TCD works on understanding and controlling interfacial reactions for applications in environmental chemistry, biodevices, and catalysis
Hierarchical carbon structures also show promise for CO2 capture
Novel smart coatings for orthopedic implants have bacteria-killing nanopillars on one side and strain-mapping flexible electronics on the other.
autonomous, self-powered mechanical metamaterials perform basic computation
atomic-scale composition of regrowing bone in a bioceramic scaffold revealed for the first time using an atom probe