Researchers have produced special nanopowders, which are used as modifying additives in the production of aluminum alloys. This method will significantly improve the operational properties of the foundry products, and reduce the energy costs for its final processing.
Mar 20th, 2017
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Research team 'squashes' the shape of nanoparticles, enabling inexpensive lasers that continuously emit light in a customized rainbow of colors.
Mar 20th, 2017
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Researchers have succeeded in developing a complex molecular motor that can work in one direction and its opposite. The system can even be controlled precisely, in the same way as a gearbox.
Mar 20th, 2017
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Worm-inspired material strengthens, changes shape in response to its environment.
Mar 20th, 2017
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In a new paper, scientists describe a material that, when heated to about 450 degrees Celsius, transforms from an atomically thin, two-dimensional sheet into an array of one-dimensional nanowires, each just a few atoms wide.
Mar 20th, 2017
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A research team has successfully concocted a novel nanofiber solution that creates thin, see-through air filters that can remove up to 90 per cent of PM2.5 particles and achieve high air flow of 2.5 times better than conventional air filters.
Mar 20th, 2017
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Aerospace researchers have demonstrated that some randomness in the arrangement of carbon atoms makes materials that are lighter and stronger.
Mar 20th, 2017
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New strategy could improve performance of some immune-based drugs.
Mar 20th, 2017
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Researchers have found a way to use molecules of dye to see inside some of the new composite materials being tested for bridges, cars and sporting goods.
Mar 17th, 2017
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A new study has modeled a crucial first step in the self-assembly of cellular structures such as drug receptors and other protein complexes, and found that the flexibility of the structures has a dramatic impact on how fast two such structures join together.
Mar 17th, 2017
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Oxygen defects like nanopillars enhanced magnetic and magnetooptical response of STF films.
Mar 17th, 2017
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Researchers lengthened the lifetime of perovskite solar cells by using nanotube film to replace the gold used as the back contact and the organic material in the hole conductor.
Mar 17th, 2017
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A team has published pictures at very high atomic resolution of the multi-part protein complex that performs the very first step in the incredibly complex genome-replication dance that occurs when one cell becomes two.
Mar 17th, 2017
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Researchers synthesize first sample of transparent silicon nitride.
Mar 17th, 2017
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Scientists have been able to reveal for the first time the dynamics of the orbital angular momentum of plasmons. They used a combination of extremely high-quality single crystals of gold, ultrafast laser pulses and an electron microscope.
Mar 17th, 2017
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In work that could help make possible a faster, longer-lasting and lower-energy method of data storage for consumers and businesses, researchers have developed a technique for imaging and studying a promising class of magnetic devices with 10 times more detail than optical microscopes.
Mar 17th, 2017
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