Polymers and soft materials news, June 2014

A team of researchers in the US has developed a way to produce significantly stiff, strong and light structures with ultralow density at the microscale

Researchers from Brown have simplified matters by using a stiff, rod-like virus instead of DNA to experiment with nanopores.

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The road to more efficient delivery of bone regenerating growth factors, with greater accuracy and at a lower cost.

Scientists have developed a method using DNA origami to turn one-dimensional nano materials into two dimensions.

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