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Add boron for better batteries
World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
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
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
Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
Naturally occurring keystone molecules that have powerful behavioral effects on diverse organisms often play large but unrecognized roles in structuring ecosystems according to a theory proposed in the June issue of BioScience The authors of ... - Read MoreChemists 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
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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 ...
By identifying two genes required for transforming inorganic into organic mercury which is far more toxic scientists have just taken a significant step toward protecting human health Share This See Also Genes Human Biology Dentistry Chemistry ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blood flows differently than water Anyone who has ever cut themselves knows that blood flows viscously and rather erratically The similarity between blood and ketchup is something not only filmmakers are aware of Experts refer ...
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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
Spectroscopy
Elucidating energy shifts in optical tweezersPhysicists are providing an all in one guide to help calculate the effect the use of optical tweezers has on the energy levels of atoms under study A small piece of paper sticks to an ...
- Invisible pattern can put a stop to counterfeit designer clothing
- Researchers devise method for enhancing CEST MRI
- Insights into deadly coral bleaching could help preserve reefs: Surprising result from study of 1893 World's Fair corals
- Plasmonics: Model makes light work of nanocircuits
- High-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair
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
Chemical Thermodynamics
By means of special metamaterials light and sound can be passed around objects KIT researchers now succeeded in demonstrating that the same materials can also be used to specifically influence the propagation of heat A ...
- Keeping beverages cool in summer: I''s not just the heat, it's the humidity
- Innovative self-cooling, thermoelectric system consumes no electricity
- Research could improve heat dissipation in 3-D systems
- Model Allows Engineers to Test Fuel Systems on Computers
- The dynamic of Spain's population follows the maximum entropy principle
Electrochemistry
Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high capacity batteries Calculations by the Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson found a graphene boron anode should ...
- New technique to improve quality control of lithium-ion batteries
- New battery design could help solar and wind power the grid
- Understanding the Life of Lithium Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles
- Tin nanocrystals for the battery of the future
- Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Topic of Dozens of New Scientific Reports This Week
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 ...
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Catalysis may initiate almost all modern industrial manufacturing processes but catalytic activity on solid surfaces is poorly understood This is especially true for the cellulase enzymes used to release fermentable sugars from cellulosic biomass for ...
- DNA catalysts do the work of protein enzymes
- Stressed proteins can cause blood clots for hours
- Fungal cleaning crew: Chemists determine the structure of an enzyme that breaks down dyes
- Cure for common hangover? 'Pill' mimics action of human liver in fighting alcohol intoxication
- Gap geometry grasped: New algorithm elucidates structure of liquids and how they flow through porous media
Chemical Biology
Spring is like a perhaps hand wrote the poet E E Cummings carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there without breaking anything With the hand of nature trained ...
- Squishy hydrogels may be the ticket for studying biological effects of nanoparticles
- Research On Cilia Heats Up: Implications For Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease
- Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity
- New technique to track cell interactions in living bodies developed
- New device can extract human DNA with full genetic data in minutes
Geochemistry
Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth's Surfacewas subducted into the mantle more than 2.5 billion years ago and recycled into the mantle source of the Mangaia lavas ” said Rita Cabral the study’s primary author and a graduate student in Boston ...
- Unique sulfur isotopes in plume lavas reveal deep mantle storage of archean crust
- Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle
- Unique Sulfur Isotopes in Plume Lavas Reveal Deep Mantle Storage of Archean Crust
- Discovery of 1,800-year-old 'Rosetta Stone' for tropical ice cores
- Thin clouds drove Greenland's record-breaking 2012 ice melt
Materials Science
Nanotechnology draws on the fabrication of nanostructures Scientists have now succeeded in growing a unique carbon structure at the nanoscale that resembles a tiny twirled moustache Their method might lead the way to the formation ...
- New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics
- DNA-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
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- Carbon in a twirl: The science behind a self-assembled nano-carbon helix
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- Engineered biomaterial could improve success of medical implants
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- Research On Cilia Heats Up: Implications For Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease
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- New advance in biofuel production
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- Elevated cadmium levels linked to disease: Men especially affected
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- Geologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'
- Setting the standard for sustainable bioenergy crops
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