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Artificial Bone: Designing Synthetic Materials and Quickly Turning the Design Into Reality With 3-D Printing
June 17, 2013 Researchers have developed a new method to design synthetic materials and quickly turn the design into reality using computer optimization and 3-D ... > full story -
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How Useful Is Fracking Anyway? Study Explores Return of Investment
June 17, 2013 The value of a fuel's long-term usefulness and viability is judged through its energy return on investment; the comparison between the eventual fuel and the energy invested to create it. The energy ... > full story -
Efficient and Inexpensive: Researchers Develop Catalyst Material for Fuel Cells
June 17, 2013 Efficient, robust and economic catalyst materials hold the key to achieving a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. Scientists have developed a material for converting hydrogen and oxygen to water ... > full story -
Polymer-Coated Catalyst Protects 'Artificial Leaf'
June 17, 2013 One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis, in the process yielding hydrogen that can be used for a storable ... > full story -
Coatings Could Help Medical Implants Function Better
June 17, 2013 Researchers have been working on the customized synthesis of biocompatible polymers that can coat sensors that are then implanted into the body to cloak them from the immune ... > full story -
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Simple and Inexpensive Process to Make a Material for Carbon Dioxide Adsorption
June 17, 2013 Researchers in South Korea have developed a novel, simple method to synthesize hierarchically nanoporous frameworks of nanocrystalline metal oxides such as magnesia and ceria by the thermal ... > full story -
Cheetah-Cub: A Robot That Runs Like a Cat
June 17, 2013 Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, a four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its ... > full story -
Uniquely Shaped Enzyme Amazes Chemists
June 17, 2013 Chemists in the Netherlands have found that a uniquely shaped enzyme that has never been seen before in biology is real: two interlocked ring structures, known as ... > full story -
Researchers Unmask Janus-Faced Nature of Mechanical Forces With Supercomputer
June 17, 2013 The harder you pull, the quicker it goes. At least, that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry, a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in motion by means of mechanical forces. ... > full story -
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Star-Shaped Macromolecule Grabs Large Anions
June 16, 2013 Chemists have created a symmetrical, five-sided macrocycle that is easy to synthesize and has characteristics that may help expand the molecular tool box available to researchers in biology, ... > full story
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