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Inspired by deep sea sponges: Creating flexible minerals
'Metasurfaces' to usher in new optical technologies
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'Superheated' water can corrode diamonds
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore NUS led by Professor Loh Kian Ping Head of the Department of Chemistry at the NUS Faculty of Science has successfully altered the properties of ... - Read MoreResearchers solve riddle of what has been holding two unlikely materials together
Researchers develop AFM-IR for nanometer scale chemical identification
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First discovery of a natural topological insulator
In a step toward understanding and exploiting an exotic form of matter that has been sparking excitement for potential applications in a new genre of supercomputers scientists are reporting the first identification of a naturally ... - Read MoreDuckweed as a cost-competitive raw material for biofuel production
The search for a less expensive sustainable source of biomass or plant material for producing gasoline diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to duckweed that fast growing floating plant that turns ponds and lakes ... - Read MoreChemists develop efficient material for carbon capture
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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 ...
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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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Human-made material pushes the bounds of superconductivity
no picA multi university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real world applications Share This See Also Materials Science Civil Engineering ... - Read MoreTrackable drug-filled nanoparticles: Potential weapon against cancer
no picTiny particles filled with a drug could be a new tool for treating cancer in the future A new study published by Swedish scientists in Particle & amp Particle Systems Characterization shows how such nanoparticles ... - Read MoreIs nanosilver toxic?
no picAccording to Finnish Estonian joint research with data obtained on two crustacean species there is apparently no reason to consider silver nanoparticles more dangerous for aquatic ecosystems than silver ions The results were reported in ... - Read MoreNew anti-frost and anti-fog coating for glass
no picIn an advance toward glass that remains clear under the harshest of conditions scientists are reporting development of a new water repellant coating that resists both fogging and frosting Their research on the coating which ... - Read MoreFaster, more efficient technique for creating high-density ceramics
no picA researcher from North Carolina State University has developed a technique for creating high density ceramic materials that requires far lower temperatures than current techniques and takes less than a second as opposed to hours ... - Read MoreBioorganic Chemistry
Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clotsIn results recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS Saint Louis University scientists have discovered that removal of disordered sections of a protein's structure reveals the molecular mechanism of a key ...
Physical Organic Chemistry
Directly visualizing hydrogen bondsUsing a newly developed ultrafast femtosecond infrared light source chemists at the University of Chicago have been able to directly visualize the coordinated vibrations between hydrogen bonded molecules the first time this sort of chemical ...
Molecular Biology
Scientists Find Protein-Building Enzymes Have Undergone Metamorphosis and Evolved Diverse New Functionswork toward their next discoveries The institute's graduate program which awards PhD degrees in biology and chemistry ranks among the top ten of its kind in the nation For more information see www scripps edu ...
- 'Microbe sniffer' could point way to next-generation bio-refining
- Identifying cyst-laden meat: Sarcocystis thermostable PCR detection kit developed
- Better tissue healing with disappearing hydrogels
- Long-sought molecular map of critical genetic machinery developed
- Scientists Capture Most Detailed Images Yet of Tiny Cellular Machines
Femtochemistry
Efficient structures help build a sustainable futureWhen envisioning a new structure engineers often have to balance design choices against the environmental impact of materials used It is estimated that 40 to 50 percent of greenhouse gases are produced by the construction ...
- New use for touchless technology in the operating theatre
- Lasers, night-vision technology help improve imaging of hidden lymphatic system
- Novel laser system mimics sunlight to test solar cell efficiency
- New laser sensing technology for self-driving cars, smartphones and 3-D video games
- Shaping ultrashort laser pulses: Laser light needs more bass
Food Chemistry
New global maps of livestock distributionLed by Marius Gilbert Interfaculty School of Bioengineering Université libre de Bruxelles and Tim Robinson ILRI Kenya an international researcher team established new global maps of livestock distribution This study should help to measure the ...
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percentA perspective article published last month by University of California Riverside chemists in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters was selected as an Editors Choice an honor only a handful of research papers receive The ...
Crystallography
Liquid crystal as lubricantThanks to a new lubricant small gears can run with virtually no friction Made from liquid crystalline fluid these lubricants drastically reduce friction and wear Lubricants are used in motors axels ventilators and manufacturing machines ...
- 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
- Crystal Mysteries Spiral Deeper
- Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle
Photochemistry
High-tech materials purify water with sunlightSunlight plus a common titanium pigment might be the secret recipe for ridding pharmaceuticals pesticides and other potentially harmful pollutants from drinking water Scientists combined several high tech components to make an easy to use ...
- Promising news for producing fuels through artificial photosynthesis
- Solar-power device would use heat to enhance efficiency
- Photosynthesis mechanism: Tofu-like crystalline catalysts for producing clean energy
- General in the Solar Army to High School and College Students: 'We Are Recruiting'
- Off-grid sterilization with 'solar steam'
Materials Science
Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft statesIn the movie Terminator 2 the shape shifting T 1000 robot morphs into a liquid state to squeeze through tight spaces or to repair itself when harmed Now a phase changing material built from wax ...
- New materials for future green tech devices
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
- Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials
- Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability
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- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
- Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states
- New materials for future green tech devices
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'
- Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- Research Finds Bedbugs Can Be Killed with Lower Dosage of Chemical
- Scientists Find Protein-Building Enzymes Have Undergone Metamorphosis and Evolved Diverse New Functions
- Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
- Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds
- Improving tumor radiation therapy: When basic ions break DNA down
- Best-ever efficiency points to clean, green gas-diesel engine
- Efficient structures help build a sustainable future
- A Natural Way to Monitor, and Possibly Control Populations of, Stink Bugs
- Study of noninvasive retinal imaging device presented at Alzheimer's conference
- Flashes of light on a superconductor
- Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis
- Technology produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel cheaply using carbon nanotubes
- Fuel cells for powering homes
- Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle
- First snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis
- Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials
- Pressure cell for reproducing deep-Earth chemistry
- Postcards from the photosynthetic edge: Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation
- Making quantum connections: The speed of information in a spin network
- Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability
- Neutron crystallography resolves long-standing molecular mystery
- Sophisticated radiation detector designed for broad public use
- Ultrasound tracks odor representation in brain
- Bacteria Hijack Plentiful Iron Supply Source to Flourish
- Study Yields First Snapshots of Water Splitting in Photosynthesis
- American Chemical Society Meeting Features Hands-On Family Event, Energy Symposia
- New Compound Treats Both Blindness and Diabetes in Animal Studies
- Potent Spider Toxin 'Electrocutes' German, Not American, Cockroaches
- SAR11, oceans' most abundant organism, has ability to create methane
- Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues
- Ultra-cold atom transport made simple
- Efficient thermal cooling and heating
- The quantum dance of oxygen: Proposal for a new phase of the element, when atoms dance in quartets
- Highlights for 2014 National Meeting of World's Largest Scientific Society
- How beryllium causes deadly lung disease
- New optogenetic tool for controlling neuronal signalling by blue light
- Lights out: Light pollution alters reproduction cycle in lemurs
- Ironing out details of the carbon cycle: Dissolved iron in North Atlantic traced to Sahara desert
- From pencil marks to quantum computers
- Identifying microbial species: New device will help identify the millions of bacteria that populate the world
- Tool helps guide brain cancer surgery
- Hollow-fiber membranes could cut separation costs, energy use
- Safer, cheaper building blocks for future anti-HIV and cancer drugs
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