Iridium oxide (IrO2) nanoparticles are useful electrocatalysts for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen—a clean source of hydrogen for fuel and power. However, its high cost demands that researchers find the most efficient ...
Materials Science
May 4, 2016
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Transmissible cancers, which occur only rarely in the animal kingdom, are spread by the transfer of living cancer cells. In the case of Tasmanian devils, the cells are transferred through biting—a behavior that is common ...
Evolution
Apr 20, 2023
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Tasmanian devils are tough little creatures with a ferocious reputation. Tragically, each year thousands of Tasmanian devils suffer and die from contagious cancers—devil facial tumors.
Ecology
Nov 17, 2022
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Thermoelectric materials, which can generate electricity from waste heat or be used as solid-state refrigerators, could play an important role in a global sustainable energy solution. Such a development involves identifying ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 9, 2013
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City University London Professor of Engineering Development, Professor Philip Thomas, says that the Department for Transport's (DfT) safety policy on severe railway accidents, is based on opinion measurements that were filtered ...
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2014
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NUS scientists have predicted a new type of nonequilibrium effects that could generally exist in nanoscale electronic devices, and successfully explained a recent puzzling experiment using the effects.
Nanophysics
Oct 6, 2021
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A new mathematical model helps predict the tiny changes in carbon-based materials that could yield interesting properties.
Nanomaterials
Jul 19, 2021
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(Phys.org) -- Sometimes it is easy to overgeneralize, to conclude that simply because a group of things are pretty much all the same, they're identical in all respects, even interchangeable. But such assumptions can cause ...
Materials Science
Jun 26, 2012
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A research team led by Prof. Yang Liangbao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to accurately monitor the diffusion behavior ...
Nanophysics
Oct 11, 2023
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By mixing and matching choices from a buffet of 30 to 70 options, scientists are modeling water's behavior in surface and subsurface reactions and in heterogeneous atmospheric processes such as the formation of clouds. But, ...
Materials Science
Apr 1, 2010
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