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Conference Report, Part Three – Materials Research Society Fall Meeting

The latest from the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston...

Celebrate 20 successful years of Advanced Materials with Wiley-VCH

Join us at 6pm tonight to celebrate 20 years of excellence in materials science at our birthday reception...

Empowered Devices

Z. L. Wang presents the state of the art in the emerging field of nanopiezoelectronics, an effective method for harvesting energy from the environment.

Detecting Seperate

Detection of UV-induced lesions in cellular DNA, which are associated with mutagenic and carcinogenic risks, by using a a new fluorescent probe is reported by Shu Wang and co-workers.

Conference Report, Part Two – Materials Research Society Fall Meeting

An update from the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston...

Conference Report – Materials Research Society Fall Meeting

Our first update from the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting...

Nanostructured Biomaterials for Regeneration

The use of biomaterials is crucial for regenerative medicine, which aims to regenerate and replace lost or dysfunctional tissues or organs.

Remote Plasma Polymerization of Rhodamine 6G

Mechanically stable and insoluble fluorescent thin films have been deposited by sublimating Rhodamine 6G laser dye through remote plasma polymerization. The obtained nanocomposite films display favourable absorption and fluorescence properties.

Honeycomb Films

Professor Greg G. Qiao et al. describe the use of the breath figure technique in the preparation of highly ordered, porous honeycomb-shaped films.

DSC Study of Polystyrene/Clay Gels

A detailed DSC study of polystyrene/clay nanocomposites and the first application of isoconversional kinetic analysis to the process of gel melting providing physical insights into relevant processes such as curing, crystallization, glass transition, aging and more, is presented.

Reconstructing Polyolefin Particles

X-ray micro-tomography images allow reconstruction of the 3D spatial structure of porous polyethylene particles and calculation of transport characteristics, including insight into limitations of monomer mass transport in the early stages of particle growth and in fully developed polyolefin particles.

Fluorinated Metal Compounds

Low-molecular-weight model compounds for Nafion membranes, which are formed of a perfluorinated backbone and pendant chains, are used in fuel cells to separate the cathode and anode compartments, and to allow proton transportation between them.

Immobilizing Surfaces

Co-assembly of ‘smart’ stimuli-responsive surfaces for the reversible immobilization of species on emulsion-templated porous polymers is described by Neil Cameron and co-workers in a recently published Communication in Advanced Materials.

Positron Annihilation

The state-of-the-art in the free-volume studies is overviewed in this highlight article by Shantarovich, and neither positron annihilation lifetimes nor more traditional methods are found to produce unambiguous estimates of the size distribution of elementary free volumes in polymers.

PMMA Copolymers for OLED Applications

Methyl methacrylate derived copolymers functionalized with pendant carbazole and oxadiazole moieties are synthesized in various monomer ratios to explore the thermophysical, photoluminescence, and electroluminescent properties of this system.

Complex 3D Structures

A novel strategy for the fabrication of large micropatterned objects by patterning the mechanical properties of thin-film sheets is demonstrated, and shows the possibility of control over the 3D geometry of these structures by patterning features with different lengths, thicknesses, stresses, and elastic moduli.

Fabrics that don't get wet!

The combination of hydrophobic materials and nanostructures on surfaces leads to an non-wettable fabric as reported by New Scientist this week.

Stretching the Electronic Boundaries

Dae-Hyeong Kim and John Rogers describe recent developments in the emerging area of stretchable electronics...

Time for Radical Chains

Free-radical polymerizations may involve mid-chain radicals (MCRs) in case easily abstractable hydrogen atoms are present on highly reactive propagating radicals.

Gaps in Adhesion

Adhesive shellfish proteins bind regardless of how many binding elements they contain. This has potential for the development of new kinds of binding agents...(Image Credit: Creative Commons / Andreas Trepte, Marburg)