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Improving on the Amazing: Scientists Seek New Conductors for Metamaterials
April 24, 2012 — Scientists have designed a method to evaluate different conductors for use in metamaterial structures, which are engineered to exhibit properties not possible in natural ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Bilayer Structure in Efficient Solar Material
April 24, 2012 — Detailed studies of one of the best-performing organic photovoltaic materials reveal an unusual bilayer lamellar structure that may help explain the material's superior performance at converting ... > full story -
Molecule Movements That Make Us Think: Ion Channel’s Voltage Sensor Can Change Its Form
April 24, 2012 — Every thought, every movement, every heartbeat is controlled by lightning-quick electrical impulses in the brain, the muscles, and the heart. But too much electrical excitability in the membranes of ... > full story -
Scientists See Solution to Critical Barrier to Fusion
April 23, 2012 — Physicists have discovered a possible solution to a mystery that has long baffled researchers working to harness fusion. If confirmed by experiment, the finding could help scientists eliminate a ... > full story -
Self-Assembling Highly Conductive Plastic Nanofibers
April 22, 2012 — Researchers have succeeded in making highly conductive plastic fibers that are only several nanometers thick. These nanowires “self-assemble” when triggered by a flash of light. ... > full story -
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Boundary Between Electronics and Biology Is Blurring: First Proof of Ferroelectricity in Simplest Amino Acid
April 19, 2012 — The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid called ... > full story -
Solar Cell That Also Shines: Luminescent 'LED-Type' Design Breaks Efficiency Record
April 19, 2012 — To produce the maximum amount of energy, solar cells are designed to absorb as much light from the sun as possible. Now researchers have suggested -- and demonstrated -- a counter-intuitive concept: ... > full story -
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Nature's Billion-Year-Old Battery Key to Storing Energy
April 18, 2012 — New research is bringing us one step closer to clean energy. It is possible to extend the length of time a battery-like enzyme can store energy from seconds to hours, a new study ... > full story -
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Rivers Flowing Into the Sea Offer Vast Potential as Electricity Source
April 18, 2012 — A new genre of electric power-generating stations could supply electricity for more than a half billion people by tapping just one-tenth of the global potential of a little-known energy source that ... > full story -
New Kind of Quantum Junction
April 18, 2012 — A new type of quantum bit called a "phase-slip qubit" has enabled the world's first-ever experimental demonstration of coherent quantum phase slip. The groundbreaking result sheds light on an elusive ... > full story
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