Nanoscientists have modified a commonly-used compound, titanium dioxide, turning it from white to black to boost its efficiency and make environmental applications a real possibility.
Feb 12th, 2016
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A new interdisciplinary study on the production of crystals can pave the way for faster drug discovery and delivery, and has several applications in the pharmaceutical, material sciences and biotechnology industry.
Feb 12th, 2016
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Researchers have advanced our understanding of graphene's basic properties, observing for the first time electrons in a metal behaving like a fluid.
Feb 12th, 2016
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After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers have confirmed that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips and their power sources to become one and the same.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Scientists have found a simple new way to produce nanoscale wires that can serve as bright, stable and tunable lasers - an advance toward using light to transmit data.
Feb 11th, 2016
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When you're on the go and your smartphone battery is low, in the not-so-distant future you could charge it simply by plugging it into your shoe.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Imagine if the picture window in your living room could double as a giant thermostat or big screen TV. A discovery by researchers has brought us one step closer to this becoming a reality.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Researchers have developed a design for a coiled-up acoustic metasurface which can achieve total acoustic absorption in very low-frequency ranges.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Have you ever noticed that when heated a film of oil in a pan doesn't remain completely flat? Instead, it forms a wavy pattern that resembles the exterior of an orange. These sorts of deformations inspired a group of researchers to explore whether they could be used to improve and streamline microfabrication processes.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Adapting a bacterial structure, researchers develop protein actuators that can mechanically puncture cells.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Thanks to an ingenious process, researchers grow nanowire lasers right on a silicon chip, making it possible to produce high-performance photonic components cost-effectively.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Single step process transforms carbon dioxide into star-shaped molecules that are promising building blocks for useful polymeric materials.
Feb 11th, 2016
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Members of a research collaboration have succeeded in experimentally verifying the properties of crystals of chiral magnetic materials, which may lead to the development of new types of magnetic memories with unprecedented storage capacities.
Feb 10th, 2016
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Principles of the conversion from heat currents to magnonic spin currents discovered / Study of complex magnetic materials.
Feb 10th, 2016
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Physicists have shown how liquids on solid surfaces can be made to slide over the surface a bit like a bobsleigh on ice. The key is to apply a coating at the boundary between the liquid and the surface that induces the liquid to slip.
Feb 10th, 2016
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In a new study, researchers present a clever means of localizing and confining enzymes and the substrate molecules they bind with, speeding up reactions essential for life processes.
Feb 10th, 2016
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