Humboldt penguins live in places that dip below freezing in the winter, and despite getting wet, their feathers stay sleek and free of ice. Scientists have now figured out what could make that possible. They report in ACS' ...
Materials Science
Feb 24, 2016
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We associate refineries with crude oil and a dense tangle of technical fittings. They may, however, change in the future, if crude oil is replaced by lignin, a product currently treated as industrial waste. The research route ...
Materials Science
Feb 5, 2016
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It will be increasingly difficult for protein molecules to remain anonymous, and increasingly easy for doctors and patients to detect the early stages of latent diseases. Researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry ...
Materials Science
Oct 30, 2015
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The process of evaporation, one of the most widespread on our planet, takes place differently than we once thought - this has been shown by new computer simulations carried out at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ...
Soft Matter
Oct 22, 2015
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Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw have developed a simple chemical computer made of microdroplets capable of searching databases. Computer simulations, carried ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 15, 2015
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Chemical molecules strongly interacting with light generally disintegrate very rapidly. At the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the main mechanism conducive to this destruction ...
Polymers
Sep 30, 2015
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What happens when you place liquid nitrogen in a container filled with 1,650 ping-pong balls?
Other
Aug 7, 2015
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Chemists have found a new, more efficient method to perform light-driven reactions, opening up another possible pathway to harness sunlight for energy. The journal Science is publishing the new method, which is based on plasmon ...
Nanophysics
Aug 6, 2015
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By tightly integrating experimental and theoretical techniques, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory team has provided fundamentally new insights into the specific factors that determine the absorption characteristics ...
Materials Science
Jul 28, 2015
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The Sun can be a better chemist, thanks to zinc oxide nanorod arrays grown on a graphene substrate and "decorated" with dots of cadmium sulphide. In the presence of solar radiation, this combination of zero and one-dimensional ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 15, 2015
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