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Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis
Credit: istock Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar ...
Plumbene, graphene’s latest cousin, realized on the ‘nano water cube’
Credit: Junji Yuhara Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because ...
New flatland material: Physicists obtain quasi-2D gold
Credit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers from the MIPT Center for Photonics and 2D Materials have synthesized a quasi-2D gold film, ...
Polymer science: Collaborative research centre at MLU receives 9 million
The Collaborative Research Centre SFB/Transregio 102 (CRC) "Polymers under Multiple Constraints" can continue its work at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ...
Scientists develop new technology for extracting non-ferrous and noble metals
This will make it possible to extract valuable metals from refractory polymetallic ores Scientists of Russia's Ural Federal University (UrFU) ...
Researchers from IKBFU study properties of amorphous microwires
Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Glass coated amorphous microwires are the newest perspective magnetic composite alloys that can be ...
Phase transitions: The math behind the music
Physics professor applies tools of statistical mechanics to explain why basic ordered patterns emerge in music across time and culturesCredit: ...
Building next gen smart materials with the power of sound
Credit: RMIT University Researchers have used sound waves to precisely manipulate atoms and molecules, accelerating the sustainable production of breakthrough ...
Lithium-ion battery inventor wins world’s oldest scientific prize
UT's Professor John Goodenough, inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has been awarded the Royal Society of London's Copley MedalCredit: Cockrell ...
Light and nanotechnology prevent bacterial infections on medical implants
Credit: ICFO Invented approximately 50 years ago, surgical medical meshes have become key elements in the recovery procedures of damaged-tissue ...
Keeping it fresh: Food packaging technology receives top honor
Manufacturing process uses cellulose nanocrystals to provide advanced barrier coatings for food packaging WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A large-scale manufacturing ...
Researchers gain key insight into solar material’s soaring efficiency
How the performance of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells is improved by the addition of seleniumCredit: First Solar The rows ...
Data science helps engineers discover new materials for solar cells and LEDs
Credit: Yang lab/Energy & Environmental Science Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a high-throughput computational method ...
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