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Process turns wheat flour into CO2-capturing micropores

Researchers have shown how a process for the 'carbonization' of wheat flour creates numerous tiny pores that capture carbon dioxide, representing a potential renewable technology to reduce the industrial emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Oct 5th, 2016

Memristors promise more precise and affordable neuroprosthetics

Researchers demonstrate how memristors could help aid the development of more precise and affordable neuroprosthetics and bioelectric medicines.

Oct 5th, 2016

Nanoscale device detects bacteria and tests for antibiotic resistance

Researchers have invented a device that can rapidly identify harmful bacteria and can determine whether it is resistant to antibiotics.

Oct 5th, 2016

Physicists 'dissolve' water in an emerald

Scientists detect ferroelectric properties of water molecules by placing them into a network of nanoactivities in a crystal.

Oct 5th, 2016

Solving the problem of glare

Glare-reducing approaches could lead to a type of noise-canceling camera for microscopy, biomedical and astronomy imaging.

Oct 5th, 2016

Electrons in graphene behave like light, only better

Researchers discover that electrons mimic light in graphene, confirming a 2007 prediction - their finding may enable new low power electronics and lead to new experimental probes.

Oct 5th, 2016

Researching a new kind of energy input for micromotors

With photocatalytic reactions on the surface of nanoparticles, researchers want to research sunlight driven nanomotors. In combining the two innovative fields of photocatalysts and nanomotors, they want to open new horizons for the use of nanomotors driven by renewable energy in several environmental and analytical applications.

Oct 5th, 2016

2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been jointly awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'.

Oct 5th, 2016

Electron beam microscope directly writes nanoscale features in liquid with metal ink

Scientists have harnessed a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly write tiny patterns in metallic 'ink', forming features in liquid that are finer than half the width of a human hair.

Oct 4th, 2016

'Atomic sandwiches' could make computers 100X greener

Researchers have engineered a material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices, packing in more computing power while consuming a fraction of the energy that today's electronics require.

Oct 4th, 2016

Novel 3-in-1 'Rheo-Raman' microscope enables interconnected studies of soft materials

An innovative three-in-one instrument that allows scientists to correlate the flowability of soft 'gooey' materials such as gels, molten polymers and biological fluids with their underlying microstructure and composition has been developed.

Oct 4th, 2016

New study suggests 2-D boron may be best for flexible electronics

Though they're touted as ideal for electronics, two-dimensional materials like graphene may be too flat and hard to stretch to serve in flexible, wearable devices. 'Wavy' borophene might be better.

Oct 4th, 2016

More stable qubits in perfectly normal silicon

The power of future quantum computers stems from the use of qubits, or quantum bits. It is not yet clear on which technology these qubits in quantum computers will be based, but qubits based on electron spins are looking more and more promising. It was thought that these could only be produced in the expensive semiconductor material gallium arsenide, but researchers have now discovered that the more common material silicon is even better.