Polymers and soft materials news, February 2014

Artificial muscles overcome hurdles

ANM2014 conference proceedings

Materials Today is happy to announce that proceedings for the forthcoming ANM 2014 meeting will be published in Materials Today: Proceedings.

New advance in 3D printing and tissue engineering technology

Researchers have introduced a unique micro-robotic technique to assemble the components of complex materials, the foundation of tissue engineering.

Gum-like material could improve lithium ion battery safety

Researchers has developed a chewing gum-like battery material that could dramatically improve the safety of lithium ion batteries.

Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers

Due to a new dynamic materials developed at the University of Illinois, removable paint and self-healing plastics could soon be household products.

Graphene ‘sandwich’ improves imaging of biomolecules

Researchers at the University of Illinois have obtained atomic-level images of a molecule in its natural watery environment using sheets of graphene.

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