http://www.materialsviews.com Materials Home Rss http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/765017/Colorful_Science_at_Yales_Research_Center.html Advanced Materials presents a Special Issue on Yale’s Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena 2010-07-30T11:35:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/765009/High_Efficiency_RolltoRoll_Coated_Polymer_Solar_Cells.html Advances in roll-to-roll processing of polymer solar cells lead to efficiencies comparable with that of laboratory-scale devices 2010-07-30T11:07:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/764985/Simulation_of_Protection.html Common protection of reinforced concrete is not always practicable, due to difficult access. Could protection be provided from the opposite surface? 2010-07-30T10:23:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/764217/Absolutely_Passivating.html Atomic layer deposition, the technique of laying down coatings just one molecule thick, might hold the key to improving the efficiency of silicon solar cells. 2010-07-28T15:49:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/763407/Atomic_Switches_with_Larger_Gaps_and_LightDependence.html Light is needed to initiate a new type of atomic switch that has gaps larger than the previously required 1 nm. A series of such wavelength-dependent devices could one day be used for image recognition. 2010-07-27T10:25:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/762981/Magnetic_Micromachines.html Chinese researchers have used lasers to made tiny springs and turbines out of a polymerized ferrofluid, which could be used in micro- or nanomachines. 2010-07-26T15:51:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/761519/Laser_Connects_Bone_and_Implant.html Biomimetic surface structures improve biocompatibility of artificial implants. Particular laser process parameters can create these multiscale surfaces, without great effort. 2010-07-23T20:51:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/761333/A_Multilayered_Approach_to_Therapeutic_Delivery.html Encapsulating or embedding drugs into polymer carriers can provide many advantages over free drug delivery. Alisa Becker from the University of Melbourne tells us about recent developments in which drugs are entrapped using layer-by-layer assembly of polymers that results in a thin multilayered film. 2010-07-23T16:43:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/761213/Polymer_Analysis_Trends_Techniques_and_Untapped_Potential.html This Trend article - written in an easily accessible tutorial style fashion - provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of polymer mass spectrometry from the ionisation process itself to the choice of mass analyser. 2010-07-23T08:35:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/761051/Bert_Meijer_wins_the_2010_AkzoNobel_Science_Award_.html The prestigious 2010 AkzoNobel Science Award is awarded to Bert Meijer for his numerous achievements in materials science and polymer chemistry. 2010-07-21T16:14:00Z