Materials news, January 2013

DNA and quantum dots

Black silicon for high efficiency solar cells

University of Waikato hosts titanium symposium

The Waikato Centre for Advanced Materials (WaiCAM) is holding a Titanium Alloy Powder Metallurgy Research, Development and Commercialisation symposium on 7

Evolution inspires more efficient solar cell design

Simpler optical power measurement

New route to crystalline silicon

January 2013: A new year, a new Associate Editor

New material for warm-white LEDs

In a bind

Organic sensors increase light sensitivity

Silicon to produce hydrogen on demand

Best practice reference manual for operators of FRP assets

JMC Composites Ltd is producing a new FRP Composite Asset Management Reference Manual for operators of FRP pipes, tanks and structures used within industri

More sensitive electrochemical sensors

Reducing carbon nanotube length decreases toxicity, report shows

Research has suggested that the potential toxicity of carbon nanotubes, due to their structural similarity to asbestos, can be alleviated by reducing their

Water-repellant rare earth oxides developed

Researchers from MIT have developed a range of ceramics from rare earth metals that are both hydrophobic and durable.

Soft Lego

Newer, cheaper, faster

Resolving toxic concerns about carbon nanotubes

Flexible, nanoscale ‘bed of nails’

Job Alert: Assistant Professor - Colorado, United States

New insights into graphene grain boundaries

Automatic rejection of unusable PV wafers

EPMA launches Keynote Paper Award

EPMA program is designed to discover the ‘best of the best’ PM technical papers from Europe.

Carbon copy

Graphene plasmonics beats the drug cheats

Cartilage repair success with new biomaterial

World's strongest, lightest glass nanofibers

How to treat heat like light

Mussels inspire innovative new adhesive

DNA dives head first into nanopores

Graphene oxide soaks up radioactive waste

New biochip separates microbes

Characterization of pyroelectric nanomaterials

How the kilogram put on weight

New path to more efficient organic solar cells

Nanoparticles reach new peaks

The MT blog is back

Recipe book

Exposing living cells to synthetic proteins

Photonic topological insulators taken to the next level

A nanoscale window to the biological world

A new kind of magnetism

Photon movement in complex, disordered structures