Engineers have demonstrated a new and more efficient way to trap light, using a phenomenon called bound states in the continuum that was first proposed in the early days of quantum wave mechanics.
Dec 10th, 2014
Read moreScientists have developed a new 'high-entropy' metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other existing metal material.
Dec 10th, 2014
Read moreResearchers describe the successful implementation of imaging techniques that will allow scientists to identify molecules and map their locations to areas smaller than a micron. The team demonstrated the technique with natural samples, including a sample from the Murchison meteorite and a cometary dust grain (Iris) from NASA's Stardust mission.
Dec 10th, 2014
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For the first time, scientists report the development of a stretchable 'electronic skin' closely modeled after our own that can detect not just pressure, but also what direction it's coming from.
Dec 10th, 2014
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Scientists have devised the first detailed model to quantify what they believe was the last unknown characteristic of film formation through deposition by vacuum sublimation and chemical vapor deposition.
Dec 10th, 2014
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The Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE) series of experiments on the International Space Station explored nanoparticles suspended in Magnetorheolocial (MR) fluids - a type of smart fluid that tends to self-assemble into shapes in the presence of a magnetic field.
Dec 10th, 2014
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As part of a project demonstrating new 3-D printing techniques, researchers have embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens, allowing the device to project beams of colored light.
Dec 10th, 2014
Read moreUntil now, discovery of new gels relied largely on chance discoveries. Now, researchers developed a screening method to accurately predict how peptides could combine to form stable gels.
Dec 10th, 2014
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Researchers have created flexible, patterned sheets of multilayer graphene from a cheap polymer by burning it with a computer-controlled laser. The process works in air at room temperature and eliminates the need for hot furnaces and controlled environments, and it makes graphene that may be suitable for electronics or energy storage.
Dec 10th, 2014
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Development of new material capable of autonomous molecular organization in accordance with preprogramming.
Dec 10th, 2014
Read morePrecious elements such as platinum work well as catalysts in chemical reactions, but require large amounts of metal and can be expensive. However, computational modeling below the nanoscale level may allow researchers to design more efficient and affordable catalysts from gold.
Dec 9th, 2014
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A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 - the purified germanium semiconductor -and now researchers here are on the forefront of a new germanium milestone.
Dec 9th, 2014
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The electrical characteristics of new thin-film chromium oxide resistors can be tuned by controlling the oxygen content.
Dec 9th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have long viewed molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) as a promising, much cheaper alternative to platinum. The drawback is that MoS2's catalytic performance is far worse than platinum's. To get around that problem, researchers have been trying to find ways to improve MoS2's catalytic performance. And now they may be on to something.
Dec 9th, 2014
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The photovoltaic cells now used to turn sunlight into electricity can only absorb and use a small fraction of that light, and that means a significant amount of solar energy goes untapped. A new technology represents a first step toward harnessing that lost energy.
Dec 9th, 2014
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'Zombie' method also hardens biostructures for mass production.
Dec 9th, 2014
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