Imagine an electronic newspaper that you could roll up and spill your coffee on, even as it updated itself before your eyes.
Nanomaterials
Aug 16, 2016
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Proponents of clean energy will soon have a new source to add to their existing array of solar, wind, and hydropower: osmotic power. Or more specifically, energy generated by a natural phenomenon occurring when fresh water ...
Nanophysics
Jul 13, 2016
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Physicists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have succeeded in measuring the very weak van der Waals forces between individual atoms for the first time. To do this, they fixed individual noble ...
Nanophysics
May 13, 2016
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Humans have been studying electric charge for thousands of years, and the results have shaped modern civilization. Our daily lives depend on electric lighting, smartphones, cars, and computers, in ways that the first individuals ...
Nanophysics
Feb 27, 2020
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Batteries die at the most inconvenient times. Cellphones go dark during important conversations because a battery hasn't been recharged. Or the automotive industry revs up with excitement for a new battery-powered vehicle, ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 26, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene.
Nanomaterials
Jan 30, 2009
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Eyeglasses need never again to be cleaned, and dirty windscreens are a thing of the past! Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and the Technical University Darmstadt are now much closer to ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 7, 2011
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Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Nanophysics
May 4, 2020
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Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision goggles, the contact lenses, ...
Bio & Medicine
May 22, 2025
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The past 70 years have seen the way we live and work transformed by two tiny inventions. The electronic transistor and the microchip are what make all modern electronics possible, and since their development in the 1940s ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 22, 2016
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