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Team highlights work on tuning block polymers for nanostructured systems
High-performance materials are enabling major advances in a wide range of applications from energy generation and digital information...
Mar 30, 20173 min read
New self-assembly technique to make smaller microchip patterns
For the last few decades, microchip manufacturers have been on a quest to find ways to make the patterns of wires and components in their...
Mar 28, 20173 min read
Small nanoparticles have surprisingly big effects on polymer nanocomposites
Polymer nanocomposites mix particles billionths of a meter (nanometers, nm) in diameter with polymers, which are long molecular chains....
Mar 9, 20174 min read
3-D printing with cellulose: World’s most abundant polymer could rival petroleum-based plastics as s
For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world’s most abundantly printed-on material: paper. Now, thanks to new research at...
Mar 6, 20173 min read
Nanometric imprinting on fiber
Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, which is run by Fabien Sorin, have come up with a simple and...
Jan 25, 20172 min read
3-D printing and nanotechnology, a mighty alliance to detect toxic liquids
Carbon nanotubes have made headlines in scientific journals for a long time, as has 3D printing. But when both combine with the right...
Jan 11, 20173 min read
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