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		<title>Phosphorus Promotes Synergistic Activity in Evolving NiFe Phosphides for Better Water Oxidation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Phosphorus is usually treated as a “helper” in metal phosphides—either as a sacrificial template that leaves behind active phases under electrochemical conditions, or as a passive electronic modifier. A new study challenges that view by showing that phosphorus can actively tune how NiFe phosphide catalysts transform during the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The result is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Laser Technology Aims to Detect Deadly Fake Alcohol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A laser-based sensing system developed at Adelaide University could help authorities detect deadly counterfeit alcohol, verify wine authenticity, and flag hazardous substances in sealed bottles without ever opening them. The approach is built on newly published research conducted at the University of St Andrews in collaboration with Adelaide University, focusing on the challenge of identifying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Surfactant-Free Hydrothermal Synthesis Creates Size-Tunable Monodisperse CeO2 CMP Abrasives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cerium oxide (CeO₂) is a cornerstone abrasive in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), where precise surface planarization is essential for advanced semiconductor fabrication. Its effectiveness is tied to the Ce³⁺/Ce⁴⁺ redox pair and the abundance of oxygen vacancies, which together support efficient material removal and smooth surface formation. Yet, many conventional CeO₂ synthesis routes struggle to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Data-Driven Framework Cuts Distillation Optimization Time Significantly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Distillation remains one of industry’s most energy-hungry separation steps, driving both operating costs and greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet improving distillation performance is far from straightforward: modern systems are governed by highly nonlinear models and often include both continuous and discrete decision variables. This combination turns optimization into a difficult mixed-integer nonlinear programming challenge. In practice, many [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Forest Rivers Remove Nitrogen as Natural Processes Shift Throughout Seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rivers don’t merely move water; they actively “process” pollution. A new study of a forest-dominated river in central China shows that nitrogen removal—the key biological conversion of reactive nitrogen into nitrogen gas—depends on a shifting mix of microbial activity, sediment chemistry, hydrology, and landscape context. The work focuses on two nitrogen-removal pathways that operate under [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cold Radioactive Molecules Prepared for Next Physics Breakthroughs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the first time, researchers have produced radium-containing molecules in a cold, laser-ready state, enabling high-precision tabletop measurements. The work opens a new experimental route for probing how the universe became dominated by matter rather than antimatter. In the early universe, matter and antimatter were expected to form in nearly equal amounts. Yet when an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bioengineered Bacterial Spores Found for Broader New Applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A quiet revolution is unfolding in bacterial spore engineering, where nature’s toughest survival strategy is being repurposed for next-generation biotech. Spores, produced when bacteria face extreme heat, cold, dehydration, nutrient loss, or disinfectants, can remain dormant for years or even centuries. Inside each hardened, protein-coated sphere lies DNA protected against harsh conditions until conditions improve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New experiment maps multiple isotopes showing pygmy excitations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Physicists have reported an unusual “excess” signal of high-energy gamma rays emitted by more than a dozen heavy, unstable nuclei produced in fission. The measurements address a persistent puzzle in nuclear physics: why excited fragments emerging from fission appear to release unexpectedly energetic photons, beyond what standard decay cascades predict. The results come from a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Coordination Chemistry Enables Stable Wide-Bandgap Perovskites for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A team from Beijing Institute of Technology and partner institutes has introduced a coordination-regulated strategy to stabilize wide-bandgap perovskites used in high-efficiency tandem solar cells. Their approach centers on bis(2-pyridylmethyl) sulfide (2PyS), a molecule designed to reshape the local coordination environment around Pb²⁺ during perovskite formation. Wide-bandgap perovskites are attractive top absorbers in tandem architectures [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Air-Stable Ru/BaSiN2O: Floating Electrons Power New Catalyst</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new class of air-stable electrene materials could make the long-sought “green ammonia” revolution far more practical. Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo report that an engineered surface electrene, BaSiN₂:O, delivers efficient nitrogen activation under comparatively mild conditions—while resisting the air and moisture sensitivity that has crippled earlier electrene catalysts. Electrenes are unusual two-dimensional [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Frog Protein Shows Promise as First Antidote to Fatal Red Tide Toxin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A fast-growing “red tide” problem on the Pacific coast is bringing with it an escalating threat: saxitoxin (STX), a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in shellfish and triggers paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). Unlike many poisons, STX acts with ruthless speed by disrupting the electrical signaling of nerve and muscle systems—so fast that existing mitigation strategies have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scientists Identify Invisible Early Indicators of Skin Aging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An international team led by researchers at Hiroshima University has uncovered a way to detect early-stage deterioration in human skin collagen—before any visible thinning or fragmentation of the fiber network occurs. Published in ACS Nano on July 16, 2026, the study focuses on how collagen’s molecular organization and supramolecular chirality, a measure of structural handedness, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">365660</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Roadmap Outlines Self-Powered Tactile Sensors for Robots and Wearable Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Flexible tactile sensing is a persistent bottleneck for robots, wearables, and bedside monitoring systems—especially when devices must remain reliable on curved skin-like surfaces while operating safely in humid, hot, or highly deforming environments. A new review from the North University of China spotlights a promising approach: flexible electromagnetic induction-type tactile sensors, known as FTS-EMI. Rather [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">365641</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>AI and Quantum Chemistry Reveal Dual-Modulated Catalysts for Next-Gen Fuel Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fuel cells promise a cleaner path to large-scale energy conversion, but cathode performance is still held back by sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics. Platinum catalysts can accelerate ORR, yet their high cost and vulnerability to poisoning constrain commercial deployment. To find earth-abundant substitutes, researchers have turned to Fe–N–C single-atom catalysts—materials that can mimic key [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">365626</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Bioinspired Hierarchical Hydrogel Electrolyte Enables Ultralong-Life Flexible Zinc Batteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bioinspired by the “adhesion–conduction” blueprint of spider webs, a team from Lanzhou University, Nankai University, and Lanzhou Jiaotong University has unveiled a hierarchical hydrogel electrolyte that aims to eliminate one of aqueous zinc-ion batteries’ toughest trade-offs: pairing flexibility and safety with rapid zinc-ion transport and dendrite suppression. In flexible devices, conventional hydrogel strategies often immobilize [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">365602</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Terminal Groups Enable Tunable, Versatile MXene Materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MXenes—atomically thin transition metal carbides and nitrides—are drawing fresh attention for one simple reason: their surfaces are never truly bare. During production, the “A” layers of MAX-phase precursors are selectively etched away, leaving behind stacks of Mₙ₊₁Xₙ sheets whose exposed transition-metal sites rapidly react with the surrounding environment. To reduce surface energy, those reactive atoms [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ions Move Through Solid Crystals Like Liquid Flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Superionic conductors blur the boundary between solids and liquids by enabling certain ions to move extraordinarily fast while the material’s overall crystal framework remains intact. This remarkable behavior is the basis for high-performance solid-state batteries, yet the underlying physics has remained stubbornly material-specific—until now. A team led by the University of Osaka, in collaboration with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Barrier-Free Cascaded Sulfur Reduction Enables 2-Ah Stable Lithium-Sulfur Pouch Cell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are drawing major attention for their extremely high theoretical energy density—but two persistent bottlenecks have kept real-world devices from performing reliably. Sulfur reduction reaction (SRR) kinetics are slow, and polysulfide “shuttle” arises when soluble lithium polysulfides dissolve and migrate between electrodes. Together, these effects drive rapid capacity fade, weak rate capability, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New technology identifies differences and conditions in culture media for cell biomanufacturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have unveiled a fluorescence-based analytical approach to assess the quality of culture media and culture supplements used in cell and microbial biomanufacturing. The key idea is to treat these complex mixtures not as lists of individual ingredients, but as overall “chemical fingerprints” that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tiny Water Droplets May Unlock Solutions for Global Plastic Waste Dissolving</title>
		<link>https://bioengineer.org/tiny-water-droplets-may-unlock-solutions-for-global-plastic-waste-dissolving/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A global team of scientists has unveiled a striking recycling route that turns tough plastic waste into valuable organic acids using nothing more than water and oxygen. The approach targets everyday polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene—and even rubber tyres—while avoiding the expensive, sometimes hazardous catalysts that usually kick-start chemical recycling. The work, led by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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