Turbocharging the switch to efficient engines
Predicting capricious pre-ignition combustion events could enable automakers to build powerful yet more efficient engines.
Engineering
Mar 28, 2019
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Oil-catching sponge could soak up residue from offshore drilling
Drilling and fracking for oil under the seabed produces 100 billion barrels of oil-contaminated wastewater every year by releasing tiny oil droplets into surrounding water.
Materials Science
Dec 16, 2019
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Newly discovered retinal structure may enhance vision for some birds
A newly discovered retinal structure in the eyes of certain kinds of songbirds might help the animals find and track insect prey more easily.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2019
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Rapid and efficient oil-water separation achieved by newly-developed particles
Chinese researchers have developed new magnetic Janus particles for oil-water separation. These particles—hydrophilic/oleophilic magnetic Janus particles—can separate micro-scaled oil droplets from water rapidly and efficiently.
Materials Science
Jun 26, 2018
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Growing droplets in the matrix
The mechanism of molecular self-organization was assessed in a new model by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS). In their study, they simulated how environmental factors such ...
Soft Matter
Oct 4, 2021
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Understanding what's happening inside liquid droplets
For most people, the drip, drip, drip of a leaking faucet would be an annoyance. But for Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidate Alexandros Fragkopoulos, what happens inside droplets is the stuff of serious science.
Condensed Matter
Mar 7, 2017
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On the line: Watching nanoparticles get in shape
Liquid structures—liquid droplets that maintain a specific shape—are useful for a variety of applications, from food processing to cosmetics, medicine, and even petroleum extraction, but researchers have yet to tap into ...
Materials Science
Feb 25, 2021
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Long-lasting and precise dosing of medication thanks to an oil-hydrogel mixture
Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active agents can be not only precisely dosed, but also continuously administered over periods of up to several days. The active agents inside the droplets are released ...
Materials Science
Feb 20, 2020
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Oil-loving microbes could gobble up slicks and spills
Spills of crude oil that devastate huge areas of the oceanic environment could be cleaned up by naturally occurring microorganisms.
Environment
Feb 7, 2018
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Rapid, single-cell analysis of microbiotas now possible
A single-cell method developed by RIKEN biophysicists, that can rapidly classify hundreds of thousands of bacteria according to species, promises to be an invaluable tool for discovering how gut, skin, ocean and soil microbes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 3, 2022
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