A research team led by Northwestern University engineers and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have uncovered new findings into the role of ionic interaction within graphene and water. The insights could inform the ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 18, 2020
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Millions of medical imaging procedures each year rely on radioactive technetium. One of its radioisotopes decays quickly and is useful as a tracer material in nuclear medicine. But another, technetium-99, is very long-lived, ...
Materials Science
Nov 18, 2020
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Though we usually think of ethanol as fuel for the gas tank, it can also be transformed into valuable chemicals that could help replace a variety of petroleum-based products beyond just gasoline. However, evolving ethanol ...
Materials Science
Nov 10, 2020
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, ...
Materials Science
Nov 2, 2020
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Ludwig Maximilian University researchers have designed a light-sensitive inhibitor that can control cell division and cell death—and provides a promising approach for studies of essential cellular processes and the development ...
Biochemistry
Oct 30, 2020
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The shells of crustaceans and wood waste such as branches pruned from trees usually end up in landfills. These waste materials are given a new lease on life to become nutritional supplements and medicine, with the help of ...
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2020
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A single-step, plasma-enhanced catalytic process to convert sulfur dioxide to pure sulfur from tail gas streams may provide a promising, more environmentally-friendly alternative to current multistage thermal, catalytic and ...
Materials Science
Oct 28, 2020
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In a study recently published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials, researchers from the University of Tsukuba synthesized an infrared-transmitting polymer—based on low-cost, widely available materials—that retains its shape ...
Polymers
Oct 27, 2020
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Nanoscale temperature measurement with high sensitivity is important to investigating many phenomena such as heat dissipation of nano-/micro-electronics, chemical reactions in nanoliter volume, thermoplasmonics of nanoparticles, ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 15, 2020
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are rising and our planet is heating up. What do we do? What if we used this excess CO2 as a raw material to produce things we need—similar to how plants use it to produce oxygen.
Materials Science
Sep 29, 2020
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