Egg-unboiling machine takes on fish oil
The technology that unboiled the egg is being used to help improve people's capacity to absorb fish oil.
Nanomaterials
May 22, 2019
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News tagged with industrial processes
New solvent simplifies industrial 3D, roll-to-roll carbon nanotube printing
Carbon nanotubes that are prone to tangle like spaghetti can use a little special sauce to realize their full potential.
Nanomaterials
Apr 27, 2022
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Key to carbon-free cars? Look to the stars
For nearly half a century, astrophysicists and organic chemists have been on the hunt for the origins of C6H6, the benzene ring—an elegant, hexagonal molecule comprised of 6 carbon and 6 hydrogen atoms.
Materials Science
Jun 9, 2021
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Exploring the outer solar system takes power: Here's a way to miniaturize nuclear batteries for deep space
As science and technology advance, we're asking our space missions to deliver more and more results. NASA's MSL Curiosity and Perseverance rovers illustrate this fact. Perseverance is an exceptionally exquisite assemblage ...
Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2023
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Light-based 'tractor beam' assembles materials at the nanoscale
Modern construction is a precision endeavor. Builders must use components manufactured to meet specific standards—such as beams of a desired composition or rivets of a specific size. The building industry relies on manufacturers ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 4, 2019
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Engineers 'cook' promising new heat-harvesting nanomaterials in microwave oven
(PhysOrg.com) -- Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes, from driving a car to flying an aircraft or operating a power plant. Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2011
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But what about flow? The effect of hydrodynamics on liquid-liquid transitions
For a long time, the liquid state of pure substances was believed to be a continuous state in which the component atoms or molecules are all equivalent. However, it has now been widely shown that there can be multiple phases ...
Soft Matter
Feb 10, 2020
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What is carbon dioxide, anyway? How does it cause global warming?
Chemically, carbon dioxide is incredibly simple—it is just one carbon atom linked with two oxygen atoms. Together they create a colorless gas that makes up just a tiny fraction of the Earth's atmosphere, about 0.04%.
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2023
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How nanoparticles give electrons away
Whether it is in catalytic processes in the chemical industry, environmental catalysis, new types of solar cells or new electronic components, nanoparticles are everywhere in modern production and environmental technologies, ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 14, 2015
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Bioremediation used to alleviate surface water pollution
European research has investigated the possibility of using naturally occurring microbes to bio-decontaminate groundwater, a source of organic solvent pollutants in surface water.
Environment
Sep 14, 2012
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