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World's Smallest Reaction Chamber
December 6, 2012 The world's smallest reaction chamber, with a mixing volume measured in femtolitres (million billionths of a litre), can be used to study the kind of speedy, nanoscale biochemical reactions that take ... > full story -
New Atomic-Layer Electrodeposition Method Yields Surprising Results
December 6, 2012 A new method for creating very thin layers of materials at the atomic scale could “unlock an important new technology” for creating nanomaterials, according to nanomaterials ... > full story -
NASA Investigates Use of 'Trailblazing' Material for New Sensors
December 6, 2012 Tiny sensors -- made of a potentially trailblazing material just one atom thick and heralded as the "next best thing" since the invention of silicon -- are now being developed to detect trace ... > full story -
Flexible Silicon Solar-Cell Fabrics May Soon Become Possible
December 6, 2012 For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that is capable of being scaled up to many meters in length. The research opens the door to the ... > full story -
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Keeping Ship Hulls Free of Marine Organisms
December 6, 2012 Special underwater coatings prevent shells and other organisms from growing on the hull of ships -- but biocide paints are ecologically harmful. Together with the industry, researchers have developed ... > full story -
New '4-D' Transistor Is Preview of Future Computers
December 5, 2012 A new type of transistor shaped like a Christmas tree has arrived just in time for the holidays, but the prototype won't be nestled under the tree along with the other ... > full story -
First Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Inside Human Hair for Dyeing and Much More
December 5, 2012 In a discovery with applications ranging from hair dyeing to electronic sensors to development of materials with improved properties, scientists are reporting the first synthesis of gold ... > full story -
DNA Hydrogel Flows Like Liquid but Remembers Its Original Shape
December 5, 2012 A new material is so soft it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return to its original shape. It is a hydrogel, a mesh of organic molecules with many small empty spaces that can absorb water ... > full story -
Next Scientific Fashion Could Be Designer Nanocrystals
December 5, 2012 Three chemistry professors hope that their separate research trajectories will converge to create a new way of assembling what they call “designer atoms” into materials with a broad array ... > full story -
Superconductors That Work by Themselves: Scientists Discover New Possibilities in Cryoelectronics
December 5, 2012 Scientists have experimentally demonstrated a new type of superconducting element -- named the phi-Josephson junction. Implemented in cryogenic devices, this element will make superconducting ... > full story
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