Both Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials were in the news this week for two very different stories—exciting stuff!

First, work by Graham Turnbull and Ifor Samuel on detecting explosives using lasers was featured on the BBC Science and Environment page. The original Advanced Functional Materials paper is now free to access on MaterialsViews.com as part of a story written by our intern Richard Walters.

Second, Gizmodo, MIT’s Technology Review, and other outlets picked up an Advanced Materials paper by ZL Wang at Georgia Tech on harvesting energy from living muscles using zinc oxide piezoelectronic nanogenerators. You can access that paper for free and see a video of the nanogenerator in action inside a rat, also on MaterialsViews.com.