The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels—and anything else that loses energy through heat—far more efficient.
Nanophysics
Jul 12, 2019
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(Phys.org)—Graphene oxide has a remarkable ability to quickly remove radioactive material from contaminated water, researchers at Rice University and Lomonosov Moscow State University have found.
Nanomaterials
Jan 8, 2013
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Most of Earth's essential elements for life—including most of the carbon and nitrogen in you—probably came from another planet.
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2019
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Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed that cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid.
Quantum Physics
May 10, 2022
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New discoveries about spider silk could inspire novel materials to manipulate sound and heat in the same way semiconducting circuits manipulate electrons, according to scientists at Rice University, in Europe and in Singapore.
Materials Science
Jul 25, 2016
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Rice University scientists have built a better epoxy for electronic applications.
Nanomaterials
Nov 14, 2018
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Plastic waste comes back in black as pristine graphene, thanks to ACDC.
Nanomaterials
Oct 30, 2020
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Our spatial sense doesn't extend beyond the familiar three dimensions, but that doesn't stop scientists from playing with whatever lies beyond.
Quantum Physics
Feb 21, 2022
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In a study that gives new meaning to the term "rock bottom," seismic researchers have discovered the underside of a rocky slab of Earth's surface layer, or lithosphere, that has been pulled more than 400 miles beneath northeastern ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2020
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A disappearing act was the last thing Rice University physicist Randy Hulet expected to see in his ultracold atomic experiments, but that is what he and his students produced by colliding pairs of Bose Einstein condensates ...
General Physics
Nov 2, 2014
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