Materials news, July 2012

Phase changing transistor

Printed photonic crystal mirrors shrink lasers down to size

Fools’ gold regulates oxygen

New type of surface-emitting laser

Joining Technologies offers AM ‘lab day’

Joining Technologies, Inc says that it is offering application laboratory days (AppLab Day) for metal engineers working on projects that might benefit from

PowderMet2013 call for papers

The MPIF and APMI International have issued a call for papers & posters for Powdermet 2013

NASA tests hypersonic heat shield

Radiation damage a bigger problem than previously thought

Introducing the Materials Today Channels

Highly transparent solar cells

Modifying surfaces to prevent the spread of bacteria

Imaging batteries in real time

Nanoscale scaffolds and stem cells show promise in cartilage repair

"Sifting" liquid at the cellular level

Artificial pores mimic key features of natural pores

PSI adds new atomiser to its HERMIGA range

PSI's HERMIGA range has a new hot gas atomiser.

Silicon sponges as tenacious batteries

Lab-engineered muscle implants

NanoSteel wins R&D award for nano-structured steels

The NanoSteel Company has earned its fifth R&D 100 Award, by R&D Magazine, for its nano-structured powder metal alloys for large scale industrial component

Plasmonic chains act like polymers

Highly conductive and elastic conductors

Carbon-based transistors increase speed

Ferroelectricity on the nanoscale

Waste to watts

Photovoltaic thermal power

New approach to nanomedicine design

White LEDs on paper

Muscle-like action mimics human eye movement

Tiny bubbles snap carbon nanotubes like twigs

Microscope probe-sharpening technique improves resolution

Subatomic details of ferroelectric nanomaterials

Rubber-band electronics

Natural plant protein for drug delivery

Top Ten: News from June 2012

Vascular networks made from sugar

First SOFC capable of battery-like storage

Nano Today leaps upward in impact factor ranking

UK university buys laser melting machine

Renishaw has sold an AM250 laser melting machine to Swansea University in Wales.

Room-temperature quantum bits

Feel-good glass

New generation of green flame retardants

Etching the next generation of microchips

Programmable DNA scissors

Individual cell treatment