Researchers have developed a paint for use in coatings and packaging that changes color when exposed to high temperatures, delivering a visual warning to people handling material or equipment with the potential to malfunction, explode, or cause burns when overheated.
Jul 4th, 2014
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Having perfected an isotope labeling method allowing extremely sensitive detection of carbon nanotubes in living organisms, researchers have looked at what happens to nanotubes after one year inside an animal.
Jul 4th, 2014
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A solitary superconductor yields new insights into the principles behind perfectly efficient electrical transport.
Jul 4th, 2014
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A novel structural analysis scheme using multiple x-ray techniques probes the internal three-dimensional structure of macromolecular complexes.
Jul 4th, 2014
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Nanosupply provides an easy and safe platform to source and share advanced materials for research and education. Their mission is to encourage collaboration, help researchers and science educators save time and money, and decrease research originated waste.
Jul 4th, 2014
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Researchers developed a novel method based on photoluminescence to sensitively probe optical fields around nanostructures and applied their technique to image the transmission of optical signals.
Jul 4th, 2014
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One of the hottest materials in condensed matter research today is graphene.
Jul 3rd, 2014
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Computer simulations show how two knots on a DNA strand can interchange their positions.
Jul 3rd, 2014
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Researchers have developed a microfluidic technique for fabricating a new class of metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes inside hollow polymer fibers that are just a few hundred microns in diameter. The new fabrication process, believed to be the first to grow MOF membranes inside hollow fibers, could potentially change the way large-scale energy-intensive chemical separations are done.
Jul 3rd, 2014
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Researchers have observed the fractional quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene and shown that this exotic state of matter can be tuned by an electric field.
Jul 3rd, 2014
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A narrow enough ribbon will transform a high-performance conductor into a semiconductor.
Jul 3rd, 2014
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A new type of high-sensitivity and low-cost sensors, called plasmonic biosensors, could ultimately become a key asset in personalised medicine by helping to diagnose diseases at an early stage.
Jul 3rd, 2014
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Physicists at Penn have discovered a way around the limitations of graphene production and have spun out their research into a company called Graphene Frontiers.
Jul 3rd, 2014
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Nonlinear optical materials are widely used in laser systems. However, high light intensity and long propagation are required to produce strong nonlinear optical effects. Researchers created metamaterials with a million times stronger nonlinear optical response, compared to the traditional nonlinear materials, and demonstrated frequency conversion in films 100 times thinner than human hair using light intensity comparable to that of a laser pointer.
Jul 2nd, 2014
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Recent research has shown that substances called nanofluids have the potential to help keep electronics cool. They are made of metallic nanoparticles that have been added to a liquid, such as water.
Jul 2nd, 2014
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Optical imaging could become even more valuable if researchers could find a way for light to penetrate all the way through the body's tissues. Currently, passing through a fraction of an inch of skin is enough to scatter the light and scramble the image. Now researchers have developed a single-pixel optical system based on compressive sensing that can overcome the fundamental limitations imposed by this scattering.
Jul 2nd, 2014
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