Environmentally Friendly Corrosion Protection for Marine Applications

Marine environments, and seawater in particular, are extremely corrosive. Effective corrosion protection for marine constructions is an important area of development.

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Mato Knez receives Gaede Prize 2012

The German Vacuum Society and the German Physical Society have honored Dr. Mato Knez for his exceptional achievements in the development of new concepts for materials synthesis on the nano and microscale via atomic layer deposition.

Dr. Mato Knez, winner of the 2012 Gaede prize.

Printing with Lasers: Making Electronics Quick and Easy

A European research team has made a breakthrough in the printing of organic electronics.

An optical microscopy image on of the channels in a printed OECT array.

Bayer to Establish Wind Energy Research Center

MaterialScience division to pool expertise in research and development at existing site in Otterup, Denmark.

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Smart as Skin: Intelligent Corrosion Protection

New research from MPI Dusseldorf takes aim at corrosion: a reactive system has been developed, able to deliver corrosion inhibitor to any cut on a metal surface.

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German Government and BASF Launch Long-Term Nanomaterial Safety Study

€5 million funding will enable externally advised project to study effect of nanomaterials on the lungs.

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How to Enhance the Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells

Structure-property correlations can be helpful in gaining higher efficiencies in polymer solar cells. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyze these correlations in terms of LUMO-reducing moieties, and effectively using electron withdrawing and side-chain substituents.

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Is It Ripe? Carbon Nanotubes Can Sense Fruit

Carbon nanotube-based ethylene sensor establishes fruit ripeness

Advanced Materials Top 40

Advanced Materials Top 40 for May 16, 2012

Many new entries in the Top 40 most-read papers in Advanced Materials last week, including work on graphene, organic and oxide semiconductors, plasmonics, and nanostructures.

A SEM image of one of the titanium dioxide microspheres synthesized in this experiment.

Tuning Heteroatoms: Making Efficient Photocatalysts

An international research team have designed and developed a method for synthesizing photocatalysts with tunable heteroatom distribution.

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New Material to Effectively Clean Oil Spills

A steel mesh with a porous hydrogel layer is both superoleophobic and superhydrophilic, allowing water to drain while retaining oil.

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Dr. Mato Knez, winner of the 2012 Gaede prize.

Mato Knez receives Gaede Prize 2012

The German Vacuum Society and the German Physical Society have honored Dr. Mato Knez for his exceptional achievements in the development of new concepts for materials synthesis on the nano and microscale via atomic layer deposition.

Image: BMU/Bettina Volke

German Government and BASF Launch Long-Term Nanomaterial Safety Study

€5 million funding will enable externally advised project to study effect of nanomaterials on the lungs.

Advanced Materials Top 40

Advanced Materials Top 40 for May 16, 2012

Many new entries in the Top 40 most-read papers in Advanced Materials last week, including work on graphene, organic and oxide semiconductors, plasmonics, and nanostructures.

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Young Talents in Polymer Science

Polymer Science – The Next Generation

A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications presents the diverse research of young talents working in polymer science around the globe.

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New Chairman of Supervisory Board at Carl Zeiss AG

Dr. Dieter Kurz elected as new Chairman, effective immediately.

Functional lipid-based microparticles can be used to mimic the pharmaceutical food effect and enhance drug absorption by controlling the enzymatic digestion of lipid colloids.

Simulated digestion: nanomaterials improve drug absorption

Materials which can improve drug absorption in the body have been developed using silicon dioxide nanoparticles.

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More biocompatibility for polyurethane

Polyurethane can be made more biocompatible for medical devices by grafting chitosan on it.

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Solar Photovoltaic Industry Leaders Announce Global Solar Council

Representatives of leading international companies in the solar photovoltaic industry announce the founding of the Global Solar Council.

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Book Review: Biocatalysis in Polymer Chemistry

Nico Bruns from the Department of Chemistry of the University of Basel reviews Biocatalysis in Polymer Chemistry, edited by Katja Loos.

A molecule is able to walk back and forth upon a five-foothold pentaethylenimine track without external intervention.

A Two-Legged Molecule: Small Molecule With Independent Movement

A small molecule able to move independently along a track has been developed by researchers at the University of Edinburgh.

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SkyScan Micro-CT Product Line for 3D X-Ray Imaging

Bruker Presents SkyScan Micro-CT Product Line for 3D X-Ray Imaging in Materials Research

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