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February, 2018 Conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) have shown remarkable promise as active and charge transport layers in organic solar cells. Inkjet or screen-printing provide an easy route to low-cost fabrication of...
22 June 2026
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February, 2018 This paper describes a novel set-up for characterization of the performance of membranes designed for purification of water. It involves a recirculatory system, with continuous monitoring of the...
22 June 2026
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February, 2018 This paper describes a novel set-up for characterization of the performance of membranes designed for purification of water. It involves a recirculatory system, with continuous monitoring of the...
22 June 2026
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February, 2018 High performance energy storage devices are in very high demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and other high temperature capacitor applications, where it is critical to store and deliver...
22 June 2026
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January, 2018 Nanoparticles of gold, silver, and aluminium can capture light’s energy via localized surface plasmon resonances, an oscillation of the particle’s electron cloud. Once excited, this resonance can enhance...
22 June 2026
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January, 2018 There has been tremendous interest in piezoelectricity at the nanoscale, for example in nanowires and nanofibers where piezoelectric properties may be enhanced or controllably tuned, thus necessitating robust...
22 June 2026
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January, 2018 First-year undergraduates in this department perform an experiment in which they increase the electrical conductivity of silver iodide by melting the cation sublattice. Given that this thermally driven...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
January, 2018 Nanoparticles of gold, silver, and aluminium can capture light’s energy via localized surface plasmon resonances, an oscillation of the particle’s electron cloud. Once excited, this resonance can enhance...
22 June 2026
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December, 2017 Self-assembly of nanostructures is a straightforward way to create structures which exhibit unusual quantum properties. In self-assembly, spontaneous processes lead to the creation of nanoscale structures when the...
22 June 2026
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December, 2017 Recent advances in electron microscopy, and particularly electron tomography, have suggested the possibility of locating the atoms that make up solids in three-dimensions with picometre precision. However, the only experimental reports...
22 June 2026