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Rice researchers demo solar water-splitting technology: Process uses light-harvesting nanoparticles, captures energy from 'hot electrons'

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Rice University researchers have demonstrated an efficient new way to capture the energy from sunlight and convert it into clean,...

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Nanoporous gold sponge makes DNA detector: Possible new rapid tests for human, animal, plant pathogens

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Nanoporous gold contains tiny pores that can filter DNA from other biomolecules. The material can be used to make DNA detection...

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New nanomaterial maintains conductivity in three dimensions: International team seamlessly bonds CNTs and graphene

The research holds potential for increased energy storage in high efficiency batteries and supercapacitors, increasing the efficiency of energy conversion in solar cells, for lightweight thermal coatings and more. The study is published on Sept. 4 in...

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Fortifying Computer Chips for Space Travel

Space is cold, dark, and lonely. Deadly, too, if any one of a million things goes wrong on your spaceship. It’s certainly no place for a computer chip to fail, which can happen due to the abundance of radiation bombarding a craft. Worse, ever-...

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Making nanowires from protein and DNA

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Making fuel from light: Argonne research sheds light on photosynthesis and creation of solar fuel

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A marine creature's magic trick explained: Crystal structures on the sea sapphire's back appear differently depending on the angle of reflection

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Tiny sea sapphires' iridescence, created by a regular array of thin transparent crystal plates, is also the secret of their "disappearance...

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Waste coffee used as fuel storage: Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane

Methane capture and storage provides a double environmental return - it removes a harmful greenhouse gas from the atmosphere that can then be used as a fuel that is cleaner than other fossil fuels.

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