The hydrophobic nature of transferable graphene oxide films can be tuned simply by changing pH and voltage
Water Repellent Transferable Graphene
Improving Silicon Nanowires-Based Solar Cells
Understanding the origin of poor performance of silicon nanowires leads to improved efficiency of solar energy conversion
Macroscopic Invisibility Cloaks
Invisibility cloaks large enough to be “seen” by the human eye possible thanks to the birefringent nature of calcite crystals
Angewandte Author Profiles February
Axel Schulz, Annie Powell, Takeshi Kawase, and Nobuharu Iwasawa, are interviewed this month
Nanoparticles as H2-Evolution Catalysts
Efficient generation of H2 with Pt nanoparticles depends on their size, shape and the rate of Pt–H bond formation
Large Hadron Collider Run Extended
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will continue to collect data at 3.5 TeV until the end of 2012
Bilayer Organic Transistor
New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds: high stability and good conduction
Detecting Microorganisms
New method for separation of microorganisms uses microscale electrokinetic technique
Wonderlab Comic — Survivor
A new comic series by Sophie Lin: It's a bad day for glassware in Sophie's lab as they play Survivor ...
Neutrino Detector Starts Measurement
Anti-neutrinos ready to be measured at the Double Chooz experiment in the hope of determining the third oscillation parameter