Despite their name, rare earth elements actually aren't that rare. Abundant in mines around the world, rare earths are used in many high-tech products, including visual displays, batteries, super conductors, and computer ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 13, 2017
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When oil mixes with or enters into water, conventional methods of cleaning the water and removing the oil can be challenging, expensive and environmentally risky. But researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 8, 2017
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For most people, the drip, drip, drip of a leaking faucet would be an annoyance. But for Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidate Alexandros Fragkopoulos, what happens inside droplets is the stuff of serious science.
Condensed Matter
Mar 7, 2017
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By controlling a mix of clay, water and salt, Norwegian and Brazilian researchers have created nanostructures that might help boost oil production, expand the lifespan of certain foods or that can be used in cosmetics or ...
Materials Science
Nov 25, 2016
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Earlier this year, scientists used zebra finches to pinpoint the gene that enables birds to produce and display the colour red.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2016
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Researchers of Aalto University have developed surfaces where oil transports itself to desired directions. Researchers' oleophobic surfaces are microtextured with radial arrays of undercut stripes. When oil drops fall on ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 17, 2016
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Why doesn't a spider's web sag in the wind or catapult flies back out like a trampoline? The answer, according to new research by an international team of scientists, lies in the physics behind a 'hybrid' material produced ...
Materials Science
May 16, 2016
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Oil and water famously don't mix, but finely dispersing one in the other produces a liquid mixture with many useful properties. An emulsion consisting of tiny droplets of one of those liquids immersed in the other is the ...
Materials Science
Jan 27, 2016
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What really happens to the oil that ends up in the sea during a discharge, and how can we minimise the damage?
Materials Science
Apr 30, 2015
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A first-of-its-kind study observed how oil droplets are formed and measured their size under high pressure. They further simulated how the atomized oil spewing from the Macondo well reached the ocean's surface during the ...
Environment
Apr 2, 2015
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