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Back to Basics: New Faculty Apply Basic Science to Drive Innovations in Energy, Health, and Medicine
Basic Science Drives Innovation - Spring 2011
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Cover: A colorized micrograph of nanostructured conducting polymers underlies simulated images of neurons. Conducting polymers enhance the recording quality of neural signals and maintain charge intensity in neural stimulation.
Credit: Mohammad Abidian
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Features
Introduction: Back to Basics
Seven young scientists are exploring the fundamentals of next generation technologies.
Complex Oxides Grow Up, an Atomic Layer at a Time
The new field of complex oxides has limitless possibilities, and numerous obstacles.
Action at the Interfaces: Overcoming the Limits of Organic Solar Cells
A new technique lets researchers watch as electron/hole pairs divide.
Raising the Bar on Organic Solar Cells
Understanding how charge moves through a polymer could make cheap solar cells more efficient.
Fabricating Medical Devices at the Micro and Nano Scale
A laboratory devoted to small scale medical devices could make the dream of personalized medicine a reality.
Probing Material Structure with Synchrotron Radiation
Big science is required to study the properties of very small materials.
A Mechanic in the Nanobiosphere
Multiscale modeling is this mechanic's tool to unlock the properties of nanotubes and microdevices.
Departments
Research Snapshots
Reports on a superabsorbent material for oil spill cleanup, ionic liquids that separate oil from tar sands, and a simple process for etching nano patterns using chemical reactions.
