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  Bringing Color to Solar Panels

  July 22, 2013 — Covering a roof or a façade with standard solar cells to generate electricity will change a building’s original appearance – and not always for the better. At present only dark ... > full story
• Nature of Water
  Nuclear Energy
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  Magnets Make Droplets Dance: Reversible Switching Between Static and Dynamic Self-Assembly

  July 22, 2013 — Researchers have placed water droplets containing magnetic nanoparticles on strong water repellent surfaces and have made them align in various static and dynamic structures using periodically ... > full story
• Optics
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  Purple Sunlight Eaters: Microorganisms Found in Salt Flats Could Offer New Path to Green Hydrogen Fuel

  July 19, 2013 — A protein found in the membranes of ancient microorganisms that live in desert salt flats could offer a new way of using sunlight to generate environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel according to a new ... > full story
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  Desktop Printing at the Nano Level

  July 19, 2013 — A new low-cost, high-resolution tool is primed to revolutionize how nanotechnology is produced from the desktop, according to a new ... > full story
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  Unusual Material Expands Dramatically Under Pressure

  July 18, 2013 — If you squeeze a normal object in all directions, it shrinks in all directions. But a few strange materials will actually grow in one dimension when compressed. Chemists have now discovered a ... > full story
• Graphene
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  Graphene 'Onion Rings' Have Delicious Potential

  July 18, 2013 — Hexagonal graphene "onion rings" are the product of growing two-dimensional carbon in a high-pressure, hydrogen-rich ... > full story
• Chemistry
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  New Way to Study and Improve Catalytic Reactions

  July 18, 2013 — Scientists have shown a way to precisely design the active elements of a certain class of catalysts, showing which parameters are most critical for improving performance. This highly controlled ... > full story
• Optics
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  Scientists Break Record for Thinnest Light-Absorber: May Lead to More Efficient, Cheaper Solar Cells

  July 18, 2013 — Scientists have built the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record, a nanosize structure that could lead to less-costly, more efficient, solar ... > full story
• Nature of Water
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  Evaporation: Tiny Temperature Differences Are Primary Driving Force in Droplet Evaporation

  July 18, 2013 — Evaporation is so common that everybody thinks it's a well understood phenomenon. Appearances can be, however, deceptive. Recently, a new, earlier not predicted mechanism of evaporation was ... > full story
• Optics
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  Optics: A Step in Time Saves Two

  July 18, 2013 — A technique that reduces the time to simulate the operation of active optical devices aids the design of nanoscale ... > full story

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