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Polymers Mar 18, 2024

Transforming wood waste for sustainable manufacturing

Lignin, a complex organic polymer, is one of the main components of wood, providing structural support and rigidity to make trees strong enough to withstand the elements. When transforming wood into paper, lignin is a key ...

Polymers Oct 22, 2023

Scientists close the cycle on recycling mixed plastics

Little of the mixed consumer plastics thrown away or placed in recycle bins actually ends up being recycled. Nearly 90% is buried in landfills or incinerated at commercial facilities that generate greenhouse gases and airborne ...

Condensed Matter Sep 26, 2023

Imaging the elusive skyrmion: Neutron tomography reveals their shapes and dynamics in bulk materials

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm to reveal for the first time the 3D shapes and dynamics of very ...

Biochemistry Aug 17, 2023

Non-toxic, sustainable cleaning agent developed for paintings

The restoration of artworks often involves solvents which have toxic properties. Now researchers have succeeded for the first time in creating a non-toxic and sustainable cleaning agent for paintings.

Nanomaterials Aug 16, 2023

Cleaning water with 'smart rust' and magnets

Pouring flecks of rust into water usually makes it dirtier. But researchers have developed special iron oxide nanoparticles they call "smart rust" that actually makes it cleaner. Smart rust can attract many substances, including ...

Bio & Medicine Jul 18, 2023

Scientists use supercomputer to learn how cicada wings kill bacteria

Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret of their ability to kill microbes on contact. If this function ...

Nanophysics Jul 17, 2023

Measuring nanocomposite structures with neutron and X-ray scattering

Experiments with state-of-the-art scattering instruments reveal an absence of specific patterns in the X-rays scattered by nanocomposite materials. With the help of advanced simulation techniques, a new study suggests that ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jul 14, 2023

Biologists publish new guidelines to facilitate data sharing of research on disordered proteins

For decades, structural biologists have been working on cracking the molecular 3D structures of proteins to understand their function. But what if a protein doesn't have a fixed structure? For molecules that keep changing ...

Quantum Physics Jun 27, 2023

Electron tunneling associated with ferritin in vivo in the retina, the cochlea, macrophages and other tissues

Electron tunneling associated with ferritin was proposed as early as 1988, but it is still viewed skeptically despite substantial evidence that it occurs. In our recent paper published in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological ...

General Physics Jun 21, 2023

Direct photons point to positive gluon polarization

A new publication by the PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provides definitive evidence that gluon "spins" are aligned in the same direction as the spin of the proton they're in. The result, ...

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