Materials news, December 2011

Differences in caffeine content

Rolls-Royce employee wins UK’s first Inspirational Technician Award

Cool computer chips, lasers and other devices

Why buttercups reflect yellow on chins

Multicolor photodetection

Graphene-Based Inkjet-Printed Electronics

Clinical-grade neurons from skin cells

Nanocrystals go bare

The life cycle of inorganic nanoparticles

DNA damage across a cellular barrier depends on barrier thickness

Quantum computers

Nano medicine

Carving goes nanoscale

More efficient solar power

Solar power much cheaper to produce than most analysts realize

Think smaller

Expand and contract

'Label-free' imaging tool tracks nanotubes in cells

First molybdenite microchip

New '3-D' transistors promising lighter laptops

Composite pipe helps Peruvian city expand water network

Arequipa City, Peru, is expanding its water network with the help of 1.9 miles (3.1 km) of Flowtite™ composite pipe manufactured by O-Tek Internacional SA

Stretching electrical conductance to the limit

Engineering cartilage replacements

Penetrating matter

And the winners are...