Graphene may be tough, but those who handle it had better be tender. The environment surrounding the atom-thick carbon material can influence its electronic performance, according to researchers who have come up with a simple way to spot contaminants.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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Materials scientists have long sought to form glass from pure, monoatomic metals. Scott X. Mao and colleagues did it.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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Carbon nanotubes can be specifically produced with a desired structure from suitable precursor molecules.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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In the future, working up a sweat by exercising may not only be good for your health, but it could also power your small electronic devices. Researchers have designed a sensor in the form of a temporary tattoo that can both monitor a person's progress during exercise and produce power from their perspiration.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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Via direct coupling on a silver surface, scientists successfully formed dimers and short chains of porphine molecules without contaminating by-products.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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Researchers have used nanoimprinting methods to make patterned polymeric films with surface topography inspired by that of a rose petal, producing a range of transparent films with high water pinning forces.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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Researchers have developed a high-capacity method to purify monoclonal antibodies that uses magnetic nanoparticles and also introduces new operating conditions.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
Read moreTheoretical simulations reveal how nanoscale lubricating systems can ease friction between surfaces coated with diamond-like carbon.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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A novel route to pentagon-shaped gold-copper nanorods could advance the field of heterogeneous catalysis.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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A smart technology which involves smuggling gold nanoparticles into brain cancer cells has proven highly effective in lab-based tests.
Posted: Aug 13th, 2014
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A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.
Posted: Aug 12th, 2014
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Researchers demonstrate that foam may be a superior fluid to displace and extract tough-to-reach oil.
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Scientists have discovered that copper foam could provide a new way of converting excess CO2 into useful industrial chemicals, including formic acid.
Posted: Aug 12th, 2014
Read moreA new paper describes the investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials known as organic-inorganic 'hybrid' perovskites.
Posted: Aug 12th, 2014
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Physicists assign unexpected experimental results to a quantum memory.
Posted: Aug 12th, 2014
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A new technique which traps light at the nanoscale to enable real-time monitoring of individual molecules bending and flexing may aid in our understanding of how changes within a cell can lead to diseases such as cancer.
Posted: Aug 12th, 2014
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