Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have improved a method for small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to such an extent that it can now be used in the development or quality control of novel fiber-reinforced composites. ...
Materials Science
Nov 12, 2019
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Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the problem, the group of researchers have discovered that silk's cryogenic ...
Materials Science
Oct 3, 2019
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Delicate wash cycles in washing machines found to release more plastic microfibres than other cycles.
Environment
Sep 26, 2019
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Engineers have devised a fabric dressing whose thickness and elasticity can be custom-matched to specific areas of the body.
Bio & Medicine
Jul 1, 2019
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A hair-sized probe that can measure key indicators of tissue damage deep in the lung has been developed by scientists.
Engineering
Jun 17, 2019
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Researchers have shown that existing optical fibre technology could be used to produce microscopic 3-D images of tissue inside the body, paving the way towards 3-D optical biopsies.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 26, 2019
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Beneath many cities are complex networks of optical fibres that carry data, encoded in pulses of light, to offices and homes. Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singtel, Asia's leading communications ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 5, 2019
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Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found a much higher percentage of 'natural' fibres than microplastic fibres in freshwater and atmospheric samples in the UK.
Environment
Mar 22, 2019
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The quantum world is notoriously complex, its multiple layers and miniscule components eluding standard analytical approaches.
General Physics
Feb 26, 2019
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Light particles normally do not "feel" each other because there is no interaction acting between them. Researchers at ETH have now succeeded in manipulating photons inside a semiconductor material in such a way as to make ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 25, 2019
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