Making rusty polymers for energy storage
It's called a nanoflower, but if you could brush your cheek against its microscopic petals, you would find them cool, hard and … rusty.
Polymers
Mar 29, 2018
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Combining cutting-edge materials for more efficient, sensitive gaseous sensors
The human nose can distinguish among a trillion different combinations of smells. Even so, there are plenty of gases that our noses can't detect at the level of sensitivity we need. That's where gaseous sensors come in. While ...
Engineering
Mar 22, 2018
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Research gets closer to producing revolutionary battery to power renewable energy industry
Any resident of the Great Plains can attest to the massive scale of wind farms that increasingly dot the countryside. In the Midwest and elsewhere, wind energy accounts for an ever-bigger slice of U.S. energy production: ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 14, 2018
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Dispersal of fish eggs by water birds—just a myth?
How do fish end up in isolated bodies of water? For centuries, researchers have assumed that water birds transfer fish eggs into these waters—however, a systematic literature review by researchers at the University of Basel ...
Ecology
Feb 21, 2018
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Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secrets
Spin a merry-go-round fast enough and the riders fly off in all directions. But the spinning particles in a Rice University lab do just the opposite.
Nanophysics
Feb 7, 2018
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Corralling xenon gas out of waste streams
From space propulsion to lighting to surgical anesthesia, the applications and needs for xenon gas are growing. And the good news is that researchers are advancing the science to more easily remove xenon from waste streams ...
Materials Science
Jan 31, 2018
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Vertical micro-LEDs used to control mouse behavior via optogenetic stimulation
A KAIST research team has developed flexible vertical micro LEDs (f-VLEDs) using anisotropic conductive film (ACF)-based transfer and interconnection technology. The team also succeeded in controlling animal behavior via ...
Nanophysics
Jan 30, 2018
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Smartphones come in handy for the rare cosmic particles search
Researchers from the Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) at the Higher School of Economics have improved their method of analyzing ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with the use of mobile phones. The ...
General Physics
Jan 19, 2018
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New model measures characteristics of carbon nanotube structures for energy storage and water desalination applications
Using electrodes made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can significantly improve the performance of devices ranging from capacitors and batteries to water desalination systems. But figuring out the physical characteristics of vertically ...
Materials Science
Jan 8, 2018
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Progress on tailorable nanoscale emulsion for a wide variety of applications including drug delivery
Researchers from the University of Queensland and Monash University in collaboration with ANSTO scientists have clarified how behaviour of tailorable nanoscale emulsions (TNEs) interact with their targets is directed by the ...
Soft Matter
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