par Frédéric PELASCINI | 25 Août 2019 | Actualités
https://www.gfp.asso.fr/wp-content/uploads/adom201900951-sup-0001-s1.mp4 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adom.201900951 Researchers have developed artificial ‘chameleon skin’ that changes colour when exposed to light and could be used in...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 25 Août 2019 | Actualités
Polymer chemists and materials scientists have achieved some notable advances that mimic nature, but one of the most common and practical features of cells has so far been out of reach – intracellular compartmentalization. It refers to the way many different...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 25 Août 2019 | Actualités
The Rubik’s cube—a popular toy puzzle that has confounded adults and children since the 1980s—has been recreated with chemistry. An international group of researchers have created a working Rubik’s cube held together only by chemical bonds (Adv. Mater. 2019, DOI:...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 25 Août 2019 | Actualités
Self-assembled materials are attractive for next-generation materials, but their potential to assemble at the nanoscale and form nanostructures (cylinders, lamellae etc.) remains challenging. In a recent report, Xundu Feng and colleagues at the interdisciplinary...
par Frédéric PELASCINI | 25 Août 2019 | Actualités
A tiny bristle worm, wriggling around the ocean, can extend its jaw outside its mouth to ensnare its prey. The worm’s shape-shifting jaw, stiff at the base and flexible at the end, is made of one singular material containing the mineral zinc and the amino acid...
