Graphene coatings may offer the ability to control the water evaporation process from various surfaces, according to new research.
Nanomaterials
Jul 12, 2018
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Researchers at Utah State University are sending cascades of water into a tank to uncover a mystery of fluid dynamics.
Soft Matter
Apr 25, 2018
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When a natural disaster strikes, major disaster databases tend to compile information about losses such as damages to property or cost of repairs, but other economic impacts after the disaster are often overlooked—such ...
Environment
Apr 11, 2018
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Applying an electric field to water in a naturally occurring protein substantially boosts the flow of the liquid and opens up the possibility of delivering more efficient water treatment technology, according to a study co-authored ...
Materials Science
Oct 19, 2017
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes act like tiny straws that are so narrow that water confined within cannot freeze into its normal crystal-like structure. In particular, in very thin nanotubes, water molecules align in a single-file ...
Nanophysics
Oct 3, 2017
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As interest and demand for nanotechnology continues to rise, so will the need for nanoscale printing and spraying, which relies on depositing tiny drops of liquid onto a surface. Now researchers from Tsinghua University in ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 30, 2017
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Scientists are getting closer to directly observing how and why water is essential to life as we know it.
Biochemistry
Jun 20, 2016
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When you see how difficult it is to get even next week's weather forecast right, you can imagine the challenges researchers are faced with when it comes to predicting the weather decades from now.
Condensed Matter
May 6, 2016
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Using molecular dynamics simulations, researchers have analysed the properties of supercritical water. The researchers showed which structure of the hydrogen bond network is formed in different supercritical states and also ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 21, 2016
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A mathematics student has worked out the secrets of how chocolate behaves in a chocolate fountain, answering the age-old question of why the falling 'curtain' of chocolate surprisingly pulls inwards rather than going straight ...
General Physics
Nov 24, 2015
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