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Making a Multi-Use, Stiff Carbon Foam Using Bread
and biomass such as banana peels can be used to make these foams but they are not very stable are costly to make or have varied inner structures that cannot be adjusted So Yibin Li ... - Read MoreNew Ceramic Firefighting Foam Becomes Stronger When Temperature Increases
Released 14 Dec 2015 1 05 PM ESTSource Newsroom ITMO University Add to Favorites Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations ACS Applied Materials & amp InterfacesDec 16 2015 A team of chemists ... - Read MoreChemists create adaptable metallic-cage gels
MIT chemists have created a new material that combines the flexibility of polymer gels with the rigid structure provided by metal based clusters The new gels could be well suited for a range of possible ... - Read MoreA contractile gel that stores light energy
Living systems have the ability to produce collective molecular motions that have an effect at the macroscale such as a muscle that contracts via the concerted action of protein motors In order to reproduce this ... - Read MoreBreakthrough simplifies design of gels for food, cosmetics and biomedicine
Scientists at the University of Strathclyde and City University of New York have created methods that dramatically simplify the discovery of biological gels for food cosmetics and biomedicine as published in the journal Nature Chemistry ... - Read MoreLevitating foam liquid under the spell of magnetic fields
No better solution to studying ever draining foams than applying a strong magnetic field to keep the liquid in the foam at a standstill by levitating its water molecules Foams fascinate partly due to their ... - Read MoreHeady mathematics: Describing popping bubbles in a foam
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Released 3 11 2013 5 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom National University of Singapore more news from this source Mar 11 2013 A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore NUS led by Professor ...
In the EU funded project MicroMilk European SMEs together with the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer IGB have developed a novel method for pasteurization of milk with microwaves The system preserves the valuable components ...
All chefs know that you have to break some eggs to make an omelet and that includes engineers at Iowa State University who are using high frequency sound waves to break down plant materials in ...
Released 10 11 2013 9 35 AM EDTEmbargo expired 10 13 2013 1 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom McMaster University more news from this source Oct 15 2013 Hamilton ON Oct 13 2013 Researchers at McMaster ...
A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming recorded during the past 50 years according to new research at ...
Geochemistry analysis conducted by the U S Naval Research Laboratory of fossil sediment injection structures off the New Zealand coast in February and March reveal no presence of modern day expulsions of methane gas a ...
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Spectroscopy
Discovery: A new form of lightGlow in the dark stickers weird deep sea fish LED lightbulbs all have forms of luminescence In other words instead of just reflecting light they make their own Now a team of scientists from the ...
- Metamaterial uses light to control its motion
- Major breakthrough in new MRI scan technology for lung disease
- Picture this: Graphene brings 3-D holograms clearer and closer
- Scientists invent new way to control light, critical for next gen of super fast computing
- Light as puppeteer: Controlling single, micron-sized particles with light
Supramolecular Chemistry
Tying Molecular KnotsReleased 18 Feb 2016 2 05 PM ESTEmbargo expired 18 Feb 2016 5 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom National Institute of Chemistry Add to Favorites Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Nature Communications ...
- Smartphone face recognition 'improved' by copying the brain
- New catalyst to create chemical building blocks from biomass
- Mysteries of 'molecular machines' revealed: Phenix software uses X-ray diffraction spots to produce 3-D image
- A molecular thread: Flexible metal–organic frameworks with a range of pore sizes are made by threading through molecular ligands
- Hollow-fiber membranes could cut separation costs, energy use
Agrochemistry
Fast-Cooking Dry Beans Provide More Protein, Iron Than 'Slower' Varietiesis also higher in the quicker cooking beans in each of the four classes examined The authors acknowledge funding from the U S Agency for International Development the U S Department of Agriculture and the ...
- Global Food Security, Eating Your Greens Could Help Your Game, Lower Cancer Risk with Ginger and Chili Peppers, and More in the Food Science News Source
- Researchers create synthetic biopathway to turn agriculture waste into 'green' products
- Researchers Create Synthetic Biopathway to Turn Agriculture Waste Into 'Green' Products
- Wildflowers on Farms -- Not Just Crops -- Can Expose Bees to Neonicotinoids
- Microscopic Molecules Can Fight Citrus Greening Bug with Less Insecticides
Scientific Communication
Announcing the Winners and Finalists of the 2016 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young ScientistsOct 14 2016 The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences today announced the three winners and six finalists of the 2016 Blavatnik Regional Awards The winners include an ecologist who has ...
Astrochemistry
Scientists Expect to Calculate Amount of Fuel Inside Earth by 2025Sep 13 2016 Earth requires fuel to drive plate tectonics volcanoes and its magnetic field Like a hybrid car Earth taps two sources of energy to run its engine primordial energy from assembling the planet ...
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Scientists Rev Up Speed of Bionic Enzyme ReactionsOct 10 2016 Bionic enzymes got a needed boost in speed thanks to new research at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab By pairing a noble metal with a natural enzyme ...
Food Chemistry
The Low Down on Sweet N Low, Apple and Lettuce Can Remedy Garlic Breath, Using X-Rays to Figure Out Fats, and More in the Food Science News Sourcewithout losing the natural label according to an article in Chemical & amp Engineering News C& amp EN the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society –American Chemical Society ACS |2016 09 15 JNEB is ...
- Water helps assembly of biofibers that could capture sunlight
- Microbes Take Their Vitamins - for the Good of Science
- Chemistry Student Seeks to Revolutionize Chocolate Through Research
- New sensor detects spoiled meat
- Just Hit "Print": Office Inkjet Printer Could Produce Simple Tool to Identify Infectious Disease, Food Contaminants
Crystallography
Rodeo in liquid crystal: Unprecedented level of control over defectsScientists have achieved an unprecedented level of control over defects in liquid crystals that can be engineered for applications in liquid matter photonics Sitting with a joystick in the comfort of their chairs scientists can ...
- Second natural quasicrystal ever found in ancient meteorite
- Liquid crystal as lubricant
- Definitive evidence of how zeolites grow: Tracking crystal growth in real time
- Researchers grow liquid crystal 'flowers' that can be used as lenses
- Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source: Device is like a photonic crystal, but smaller and tunable
Electrochemistry
Glow-in-the-Dark Dye Could Fuel Liquid-Based Batteriesof charging and draining Based on the experiments scientists also predict that BODIPY batteries would be powerful enough to be useful to society generating an estimated 2.3 volts of electricity The study focused on PM ...
- Pioneering Scientists in Battery Technology, Renewable Energy to Be Featured at PRiME 2016
- Chemists Offer Enhanced 3D Look Inside Batteries
- Car roof and battery made with byproducts of paper production
- Researchers Prove Surprising Chemistry Inside a Potential Breakthrough Battery
- Engineer improves rechargeable batteries with nano 'sandwich'
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