Optical materials news, August 2012

High-entropy alloy: challenges and prospects

Defects engineer fracture resistance in 2D materials

vacancies can be used to engineer the mechanical toughness and fracture behavior of transition metal dichalcogenides

Nanocomposite stretches performance of artificial synapse

stretchable polymer-perovskite quantum dot nanocomposite transistor functions as an artificial synapse

Nanoparticle catalysts promise artificial photosynthesis

new nanoparticle catalyst could drive artificial photosynthesis to provide clean energy while removing anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere