Nature Communications launches
by grmeyers
Nature Communications, the seventeenth publication from Nature Publishing Group was launched this month.. This publication will be different, says the publisher.
“Nature Communications differs in being multidisciplinary,” reports the Nature announcement. “It aims not to compete with the established Nature journals, but to publish rigorous and comprehensive papers that represent advances of significance to specialists within each field. In addition, it welcomes submissions in fields that are not represented by a dedicated Nature research journal — for example, developmental biology, plant science, microbiology, ecology and evolution, palaeontology, astronomy and high-energy physics. ”
Using nanotube wires for hybrid fuel cells has renewed promise Source: Nature Communications
One current article discusses hybrid nanotubes as a part of miniaturizing fuel cells for biological applications.
“Now Gao and coworkers show that electrodes made with porous microfibers composed of oriented carbon nanotubes are capable of delivering fast mass transport of the reagents and greatly enhanced currents,” the magazine reports.
Many readers may find much of these works from Nature to be highly academic in nature — even heady sometimes — but such information provides a solid barometer for scientific research and development trends.
