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NASA's Stardust Sample Return was 10 Years Ago Today

It was less than an hour into the new day of January 15, 2006 (EST), when tens of thousands of miles above our planet, two cable cutters and two retention bolts fired, releasing a spring which pushed a 101-pound (46-kilogram) sample return capsule...

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Shiny fish skin inspires nanoscale light reflectors

Such a technique may be applicable to developing better broadband reflectors and custom multi-spectral filters for a wide variety of applications, including advanced optical coatings for glass, laser protection, infrared imaging systems, optical...

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Photochromic Nanostructures; Tools to Detect, Tract Living Cells

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SiC Nanoparticles Applied to Modify Properties of Portland Cement

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New LED with luminescent proteins

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This image shows rubber with red, green and blue luminescent proteins used to produce the BioLEDs.

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How copper makes organic light-emitting diodes more efficient: KIT researchers measure intersystem crossing directly in a thermally activated delayed fluorescence copper complex -- publication in Science Advances

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Thanks to knowledge of their quantum mechanics, dyes can be customized for use in organic light-emitting diodes.

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How seashells get their strength: Study shows how calcium carbonate forms composites to make strong materials such as in shells and pearls

The results show that such clumps become incorporated via chemical interactions with atoms in the crystals, an unexpected mechanism based on previous understanding. By providing insight into the formation of natural minerals that are a composite of...

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Tiny 'flasks' speed up chemical reactions: Self-assembling nanosphere clusters may improve everything from drug synthesis to drug delivery

Dr. Rafal Klajn of the Weizmann Institute's Organic Chemistry Department and his team were originally studying the light-induced self-assembly of nanoparticles. They were employing a method earlier developed by Klajn in which inorganic nanoparticles...

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