New material offers ecofriendly solution to converting waste heat into energy
Perseverance, NASA's 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to useful electricity.
Perseverance, NASA's 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to useful electricity.
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2021
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"Many of the greatest challenges of our time, from clean energy to environmental justice, require new approaches to the craft of scientific experimentation. This is exceedingly apparent in the field of electron microscopy. ...
General Physics
Jul 30, 2021
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Most of the tests that doctors use to diagnose cancer—such as mammography, colonoscopy, and CT scans—are based on imaging. More recently, researchers have also developed molecular diagnostics that can detect specific ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 16, 2021
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To date, there are no effective antidotes against most viral infections. An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a new approach: they engulf and neutralize viruses ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 15, 2021
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A new nanotechnology development by an international research team led by Tel Aviv University researchers will make it possible to generate electric currents and voltage within the human body through the activation of various ...
Nanophysics
Jul 6, 2021
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Optical metasurfaces can unprecedently regulate versatile wavefronts at the subwavelength scale. Most well-established optical metasurfaces are, however, static and feature well-defined optical responses that are determined ...
Natural wood remains a ubiquitous building material because of its high strength-to-density ratio; trees are strong enough to grow hundreds of feet tall but remain light enough to float down a river after being logged.
Materials Science
Jun 29, 2021
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A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that "nanoarchitected" materials—materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures—may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective ...
Materials Science
Jun 24, 2021
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An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new pattern of ordering of electric charge in a novel superconducting material.
Condensed Matter
Jun 18, 2021
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Tuning the energy gap by blending different semiconducting molecules to optimize device performance is already an established procedure for inorganic semiconductors, but it remains a challenge for their organic counterparts. ...
Materials Science
Jun 10, 2021
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