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Opening doors to foldable electronics with inkjet-printed graphene
Imagine a bendable tablet computer or an electronic newspaper that could fold to fit in a pocket The technology for these devices may not be so far off Northwestern University researchers have recently developed a ... - Read MoreKinks and curves at the nanoscale: New research shows 'perfect twin boundaries' are not so perfect
Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing
Carbon in a twirl: The science behind a self-assembled nano-carbon helix
New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics
U of T Engineering researchers working with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University have published new insights into how materials transfer heat which could lead eventually to smaller more powerful electronic devices Integrated circuits and other ... - Read MoreDNA-guided assembly yields novel ribbon-like nanostructures
Chemists demonstrate nanoscale alloys so bright they could have potential medical applications
Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation
Electronics comes to paper: Paper, being light and foldable, works well for electrically conducting structures
Obtaining polymers with à la carte optical and electrical properties
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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 ...
It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter with support from Shell has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand While the technology still faces many significant ...
How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular look has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by ...
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The research team led by Academy Research Fellow Heikki M Tuononen has been able to identify the mechanism which enables some non metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their metal based counterparts Chemical reactivity ...
An old material gets a new name and with it topological insulators have another chance to shine Samarium hexaboride SmB6 has been around since the late 1960s but understanding its low temperature behavior has remained ...
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Zinc: The Goldilocks Metal for Bioabsorbable Stents?
no picfor the first three months After that the corrosion accelerated so the implant would not remain in the artery for too long On top of that the rats’ arteries appeared healthy when the wires were ... - Read MoreNew magnetic graphene may revolutionize electronics
20-million-year-old amber shatters theories of glass as a liquid
Ubiquitous engineered nanomaterials can cause lung inflammation: Substances are used in everything from paint to sporting equipment
In vivo flexible large scale integrated circuits developed
Chemical Physics
Second sound is a quantum mechanical phenomenon which has been observed only in superfluid helium Physicists from the University of Innsbruck Austria in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Trento Italy have now proven ...
- Perfectly doped quantum dots yield 'colors to dye for'
- Device for portable, ultra-precise clocks and quantum sensors developed
- Graphene quantum dots may someday tell if it will rain on Mars
- Best of both worlds: Towards a quantum internet with combined optical and electrical technique
- New matter-antimatter difference observed in LHCb experiment at CERN
Chemical Industry
Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in ArkansasA new study by scientists at Duke University and the U S Geological Survey USGS finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater ...
- Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
- Geologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'
- Researchers find a way to make steel without greenhouse-gas emissions
- New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures carbon dioxide
- New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO2
Materials Science
Opening doors to foldable electronics with inkjet-printed grapheneImagine a bendable tablet computer or an electronic newspaper that could fold to fit in a pocket The technology for these devices may not be so far off Northwestern University researchers have recently developed a ...
- Kinks and curves at the nanoscale: New research shows 'perfect twin boundaries' are not so perfect
- Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing
- Carbon in a twirl: The science behind a self-assembled nano-carbon helix
- New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics
- DNA-guided assembly yields novel ribbon-like nanostructures
Nuclear Chemistry
From brain to heart to stomach the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that a supersensitive detector could use to pinpoint illnesses trace drugs and maybe even read minds Sensors no bigger ...
Chemical Kinetics
From methanol to formaldehyde this reaction is the starting point for the synthesis of many everyday plastics Using catalysts made of gold particles formaldehyde could be produced without the environmentally hazardous waste generated in conventional ...
- Reaction rates of second key atmospheric component measured
- Cost-Saving Measure to Upgrade Ethanol to Butanol -- A Better Alternative to Gasoline
- Catalyst for green chemistry: Amberlyst-15 can act as a catalyst for the acylation of phenols and alcohols
- Breakthrough research shows chemical reaction in real time
- Catalysts that produce 'green' fuel
Environmental Chemistry
Researchers from the University of Hawaii Manoa UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology SOEST developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands including two ...
- Geochemist aids development of geologic time scale for study of Earth's history
- Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rainforest
- Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak
- Reading rock to understand how climate change unfolds
- Team wins Cubesat berth to gather Earth energy imbalance measurements
Agrochemistry
Bioenergy crops such as Miscanthus and switchgrass appear to be promising resources for renewable energy but these new crops did not come with a manual on how to measure details on their sustainability impacts Jody ...
- Soil may harbor answer to reducing arsenic in rice
- New plant protein discoveries could ease global food and fuel demands
- Amphibians living close to farm fields are more resistant to common insecticides
- Ecological knowledge offers perspectives for sustainable agriculture
- Smoke signals: How burning plants tell seeds to rise from the ashes
Theoretical Chemistry
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues ...
- Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
- Engineers manipulate a buckyball by inserting a single water molecule
- Movement of pyrrole molecules defy 'classical' physics
- Bold move forward in molecular analyses
- Scientists map all possible drug-like chemical compounds: Library of millions of small, carbon-based molecules chemists might synthesize
Food Chemistry
Water gives life Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show how the cells in our bodies are driven mainly by water power a discovery that in the long run opens the way for a ...
- Competing for milk can be a stressful thing for hyena twin siblings
- 'Seeing' the Flavor of Foods
- Revealing the Scientific Secrets of Why People Can't Stop After Eating One Potato Chip
- High Levels of Lead Detected in Rice Imported From Certain Countries
- Major Symposium on Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water Supplies
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- Kinks and curves at the nanoscale: New research shows 'perfect twin boundaries' are not so perfect
- Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing
- Advance in nanotech gene sequencing technique
- Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity
- Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak
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- Reading rock to understand how climate change unfolds
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- World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
- Team wins Cubesat berth to gather Earth energy imbalance measurements
- Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency
- Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker
- Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
- Carbon in a twirl: The science behind a self-assembled nano-carbon helix
- New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics
- DNA-guided assembly yields novel ribbon-like nanostructures
- Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in Arkansas
- Fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula driven by tropically forced circulation
- Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars
- Nanoscavengers could usher in next generation water purification
- Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
- Physicists light 'magnetic fire' to reveal energy's path
- First precise MEMS output measurement technique unveiled
- Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
- Chemists demonstrate nanoscale alloys so bright they could have potential medical applications
- New uses for tiny carbon nanotubes: Adding ionic liquid to nanotube films could build smaller gadgets
- Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation
- Electronics comes to paper: Paper, being light and foldable, works well for electrically conducting structures
- Obtaining polymers with à la carte optical and electrical properties
- Friction in the nano-world: Physicists discover a new kind of friction
- Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
- Observation of second sound in a quantum gas
- Better dyes for imaging technology
- Oxygen consumption of individual cells measured: Scanning electrochemical microscopy decisively optimized
- Molecular basis of strawberry aroma
- Water governs cell movement: Aquaporins play key role, new research finds
- Engineered biomaterial could improve success of medical implants
- Squishy hydrogels may be the ticket for studying biological effects of nanoparticles
- Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
- Zinc: The Goldilocks Metal for Bioabsorbable Stents?
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