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Using Light, Researchers Convert 2-D Patterns Into 3-D Objects
November 10, 2011 — Researchers have developed a simple way to convert two-dimensional patterns into three-dimensional objects using only ... > full story -
Researching Graphene Nanoelectronics for a Post-Silicon World
November 10, 2011 — Copper's days are numbered, and a new study could hasten the downfall of the ubiquitous metal in smart phones, tablet computers, and nearly all electronics. This is good news for technophiles who are ... > full story -
Weird World of Water Gets a Little Weirder
November 9, 2011 — Strange, stranger, strangest! To the weird nature of one of the simplest chemical compounds -- the stuff so familiar that even non-scientists know its chemical formula -- add another odd twist. ... > full story -
Converting Waste Heat Into Electricity
November 9, 2011 — More than half of today's energy consumption is squandered in useless waste heat, such as the heat from refrigerators and all sorts of gadgets and the heat from factories and power plants. The energy ... > full story -
NASA Develops Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands
November 8, 2011 — NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it -- a development that promises to open ... > full story -
Can Metals Remember Their Shape at Nanoscale, Too?
November 8, 2011 — Physicists have now visualized changes in shape memory materials down to the nanometric ... > full story -
Incredible Shrinking Material: Engineers Reveal How Scandium Trifluoride Contracts With Heat
November 7, 2011 — They shrink when you heat 'em. Most materials expand when heated, but a few contract. Now engineers have figured out how one of these curious materials, scandium trifluoride, does the trick -- a ... > full story -
Researchers Ink Nanostructures With Tiny 'Soldering Iron'
November 7, 2011 — Researchers have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for drawing surface chemical patterns as small as 20 nanometers. This technique could provide an ... > full story -
Secrets of Tunneling Through Energy Barriers: How Massless Electrons Tunnel Through Energy Barriers in a Carbon Sheet Called Graphene
November 7, 2011 — Electrons moving in graphene behave in an unusual way, as demonstrated by 2010 Nobel Prize laureates for physics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who performed transport experiments on this ... > full story -
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Hybrid Power Plants Can Help Industry Go Green: Affordable Solar Option for Power Plants
November 3, 2011 — Researchers have developed a technology that combines the conventional fuel used in today's power plants with the lower pressures and temperatures of steam produced by solar power. His new "hybrid" ... > full story
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