Surface science news, December 2016

Healthy aging of materials

A new perspective article reviews the state-of-the-art of autonomous polymers and lays out future directions for the field.

29 December 2016

Using plasmonic silver nanocubes, researchers have developed a novel technique for printing and imaging across a range of colors.

29 December 2016

Bimetallic particles of nickel and cobalt form an extremely porous ‘Swiss cheese’-like structure on oxidation, increasing their catalytic activity.

16 December 2016

New additions to the Materials Today family.

14 December 2016Chun-Sing Lee

First articles, available now.

13 December 2016Stewart Bland

Researchers have found that the entire surface of molybdenum sulfide can be used as a hydrogen evolution catalyst, not just the edges.

13 December 2016

Exciting the polaritons in 2D materials can cause electromagnetic energy to be focused down to a tiny volume.

9 December 2016

Patterned diamond surfaces covered with a layer of graphene can efficiently transport phonons from a semiconductor to a diamond heat sink.

9 December 2016

introducing an additional polymer layer into ‘inverted’ perovskite solar cells can boost performance

8 December 2016Cordelia Sealy

Do you qualify for the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize?

8 December 2016

Nanoparticles can break down hazardous organic dyes into harmless molecules.

7 December 2016Cordelia Sealy

Using powerful computer simulations, researchers have determined why the friction varies when an object slides across graphene.

6 December 2016

Professor Allan S. Hoffman wins 2017 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal.

5 December 2016

A low-cost, scalable spray-printing process can fabricate high-quality, isolated organic single crystals on almost any substrate.

1 December 2016

By propelling silver nanowires at supersonic speed, scientists have produced an ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive.

1 December 2016