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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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Scientists call for new tools to explore the world's microbiomes

Understanding microbiomes — human and otherwise — will require a suite of advanced new tools.

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Aluminum nanoparticles could improve electronic displays

A set of vivid red, green and blue pixels based on aluminum nanostructures are shown in a liquid crystal display (left: schematic, right:...

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Nanowalls for smartphones

With a special mode of electrohydrodynamic ink-jet printing scientists can create a grid of ultra fine gold walls.

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Using nanoparticles to combat arteriosclerosis: Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a method for cell replacement in diseased vessels

On the left are fluorescence-labeled cells with nanoparticles: The cellular nuclei are shown in blue, the fluorescence labeling is shown in...

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Promising new approach for controlled fabrication of carbon nanostructures

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New bimetallic alloy nanoparticles for printed electronic circuits: Production of oxidation-resistant copper alloy nanoparticles by electrical explosion of wire for printed electronics

Now, researchers at Toyohashi Tech and Duke University have found a way to produce new copper alloy nanoparticles, which can be used as the main component of affordable conductive inks with high oxidation resistance. The researchers electrically...

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