Category: Journal Article

Miniaturization of Polymer Shape Memory Patterns

The Journal Article: Constrained shrinking of nanoimprinted pre-stressed polymer films to achieve programmable, high-resolution, miniaturized nanopatterns Shady Sayed et al., Nanotechnology 32, 505301 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac244d Featured Image by Barbara A Lane from Pixabay Why should I care about this article? I would bet that most people reading this blog post has, at some point … Continue reading Miniaturization of Polymer Shape Memory Patterns →

Impact-Resistant Glass Modeled After Nacre Shell Lining

Image by Ulrike Mai from Pixabay The Journal Article: Impact-Resistant Nacre Like Transparent Materials Yin et al., Science 364, 1260–1263 (2019) DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw8988 Why should I care about this article? Glass is an incredible material. We use it everyday in so many aspects of our lives: car windshields, building windows, electronics screens, dishes, art, jewelry, and so much … Continue reading Impact-Resistant Glass Modeled After Nacre Shell Lining →

Enhancing Droplet Deposition on Wired and Curved Superhydrophobic Leaves

ACS Nano 2019, 13, 7, 7966-7974. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b02457 Image by Andre Rau on Pixabay Why should I care about this article? Pesticides are necessary chemicals that control pests such as bugs and molds, which attack crop and food production. They also control insects that can bite and transfer diseases to livestock, as well as eliminate poisonous … Continue reading Enhancing Droplet Deposition on Wired and Curved Superhydrophobic Leaves →

Metal “Roots” for High-Adhesive Flexible, Transparent Conducting Films

Photo by wilsan u on Unsplash Bioinspired High-Adhesion Metallic Networks as Flexible Transparent Conductors Adv. Mater. Technol. 2019, 1900056 https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201900056 Why should I care about this article1,2? Imagine going to the beach and unrolling your beach towel, which has a flexible solar panel strip along the side to charge your phone or Bluetooth speakers. Or attaching a flexible … Continue reading Metal “Roots” for High-Adhesive Flexible, Transparent Conducting Films →

Increasing the Lifetime of Quantum dot LEDs using Aluminum

University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster Al atomistic surface modulation on colloidal gradient quantum dots for high-brightness and stable light-emitting devices, Scientific Reports 9, 6357 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42925-0 Why should I care about this article? With increased demand for exceptional devices for the digital world, scientists and engineers are working to push the technology … Continue reading Increasing the Lifetime of Quantum dot LEDs using Aluminum →

Rapid On-Chip Healing of Metal Thin Films

Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash Adv. Mater. Technol. 2019, 4, 1800468 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.201800468 Why should I care about this article? Semiconductor microchips are involved in practically every component of our modern lives. This morning I interacted with at least four microchip-based devices, probably many more, in the first five minutes of my day: My phone, which woke me … Continue reading Rapid On-Chip Healing of Metal Thin Films →

Nanoscale tweezers for single-cell biopsies

Photo by Qimono on Pixabay Nadappuram, B.P. et al. Nat. Nano. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0315-8 Why should I care about this article? In the midst of graduate research, holiday preparations and the cold, dry weather, I became pretty run down the week before Christmas. We all get sick sometimes. In my case, getting better meant an exorbitant … Continue reading Nanoscale tweezers for single-cell biopsies →

Improving Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording for Hard Disk Drives

Photo by Patrick Lindenberg on Unsplash Silicon Oxide-Rich Diamond-Like Carbon: A Conformal, Ultrasmooth Thin Film Material with High Thermo-Oxidative Stability, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 1801416 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.201801416 Why should I care about this article? Growing up, my sibling and I experienced a fair amount of the start of home computers. Our first family computer was a Windows 95 that … Continue reading Improving Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording for Hard Disk Drives →

Separating Single Layers of Atoms

Photo by Alexej Алексей Simonenko Симоненко on Unsplash Controlled crack propagation for atomic precision handling of wafer-scale two-dimensional materials, Shim et al., Science 362, 665–670 (2018) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/10/10/science.aat8126 Why should I care about this article2? A lot of exciting, maybe even sexy, recent scientific research involves a class of materials called 2D materials. At the heart of this is … Continue reading Separating Single Layers of Atoms →

Controlling Quantum Dot Positions for Quantum Computing

Photo by Yonko Kilasi on Unsplash Laser induced nano-patterning with atomic-scale thickness on an InAs/GaAs surface, W. Zhang et al. Semicond. Sci. Technol. 33 (2018) 115021 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6641/aae352 Why should I care about this article2? A hot topic this past week across many news agencies has been the mid term elections, and as always every vote counts. Some people … Continue reading Controlling Quantum Dot Positions for Quantum Computing →