Materials – Page 77
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World’s first all-carbon solar cell
Device made from fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene could deliver 'high performance at a low cost'
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Call for 4G windfall to go to UK science
Top scientists back campaign to fund world class infrastructure and incentivise innovation
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ResearchMOF based motorboat
Molecular self propulsion achieved by loading a MOF with a hydrophobic peptides fuel
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FeaturePolymer, heal thyself
Materials that can mend themselves sound like science fiction, but they are part of an active area of polymer chemistry. Nina Notman stitches together the different strands of research
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ResearchAn ultralight graphene structure for all seasons
Super material is fire resistant and can absorb a record breaking 600 times its own weight in oil
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FeatureClothing gets smart
The clothing of the future may be able to do much more than preserve one’s dignity. Nina Notman reports on what you can expect from the 21st century t-shirt
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ResearchBright idea to probe bond order
An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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Graphene printer helps fight Parkinson’s disease
A simple method using an everyday office appliance has been used to make graphene films for biosensors
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Graphene–boron nitride stitching to sew up electronics
Composite material could overcome graphene's limitations to produce thin, flexible electronic devices
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A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes
A variant of a vitamin can be used to separate out single-walled carbon nanotube enantiomers
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Graphene reactions driven by substrate not reactant
The surface a sheet of graphene sits on determines its reactivity. US chemists have now explained why
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The buzz about finding new allotropes
A particle swarm search has thrown up potential new forms of carbon, silicon and germanium
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NewsNanosilver in consumer goods under the spotlight
Danish environment agency finds no evidence of a risk to the public from goods with antibacterial properties
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ResearchWhy can we walk on custard?
Scientists take a closer look at how shear-thickening fluids respond to impacts