Science

Buckle up for fast ionic conduction

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ETH researchers engineered free-standing ceramic membranes for so-called micro energy converters. The strain patterns of these membranes...

Nanoparticles naturally fall into left- and right-handed versions

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These are levorotatory and dextrorotatory quantum dots with left and right chiral defects.

A protective shield for sensitive catalysts: Hydrogels block harmful oxygen

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With a novel hydrogel, sensitive catalysts can be protected from oxygen molecules (red) which could irreversibly damage the catalysts. The...

World's thinnest lightbulb -- graphene gets bright! Columbia engineers and colleagues create bright, visible light emission from one-atom thick carbon

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Researchers grind nanotubes to get nanoribbons: Rice-led experiments demonstrate solid-state carbon nanotube 'templates'

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Researchers led by materials scientists at Rice University discovered that altering carbon nanotubes with carboxyl (COOH) and hydroxyl (OH...

Rosetta's lander Philae wakes up from hibernation

Rosetta's lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Sustainable transport essential to new global goals and low carbon economy – UN panel

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Bicycle-taxi in the streets of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Argonne scientists announce first room-temperature magnetic skyrmion bubbles: New ideas are bubbling up for more efficient computer memory

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