Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes.
Nanomaterials
Dec 9, 2022
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Computer chips are packed with billions of microscopic transistors that enable powerful computation, but also generate a great deal of heat. A buildup of heat can slow a computer processor and make it less efficient and reliable. ...
Nanophysics
Oct 7, 2022
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Charging and discharging a battery cell transforms its electrode material into a "super" material.
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2022
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Computer chip designers, materials scientists, biologists and other scientists now have an unprecedented level of access to the world of nanoscale materials thanks to 3D visualization software that connects directly to an ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 18, 2022
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Polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the journal Nature Communications that they have solved a longstanding mystery surrounding a nanoscale structure, formed by collections of ...
Polymers
May 16, 2022
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New research is showing that some tiny catalysts being considered for industrial-scaled environmental remediation efforts may be unstable during operation.
Materials Science
Jun 22, 2021
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A team of scientists from ASU and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) led by Hao Yan, ASU's Milton Glick Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences, and director of the ASU Biodesign Institute's Center for Molecular Design ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 7, 2020
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Most of the time, a material's color stems from its chemical properties. Different atoms and molecules absorb different wavelengths of light; the remaining wavelengths are the "intrinsic colors" that we perceive when they ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 13, 2020
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Brilliantly colored chameleons, butterflies, opals—and now some 3-D-printed materials—reflect color by using nanoscale structures called photonic crystals.
Materials Science
Jun 10, 2020
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In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois and the Missouri University of Science and Technology modeled a method to manipulate nanoparticles as an alternative mode of propulsion for tiny spacecraft that require ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 23, 2019
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