Science

Thin coating on condensers could make power plants more efficient: Graphene layer one atom thick could quadruple rate of condensation heat transfer in generating plants

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An uncoated copper condenser tube (top left) is shown next to a similar tube coated with graphene (top right). When exposed to water vapor...

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Researchers synthesize magnetic nanoparticles that could offer alternative to rare Earth magnets

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A transmission electron microscope image of the newly synthesized CoFe2C rods that contain an assembly of nanoparticles.

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Donuts, math, and superdense teleportation of quantum information

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In superdense teleportation of quantum information, Alice (near) selects a particular set of states to send to Bob (far), using the...

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OSU researchers prove magnetism can control heat, sound: Team leverages OSC services to help confirm, interpret experimental findings

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A team led by Ohio State's Wolfgang Windl, Ph.D., used OSC's Oakley Cluster to calculate acoustic phonon movement within an indium-...

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Production of Copper Cobaltite Nanocomposites with Photocatalytic Properties in Iran

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Controlled Release of Anticorrosive Materials in Spot by Nanocarriers

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DNA Double Helix Does Double Duty in Assembling Arrays of Nanoparticles: Synthetic pieces of biological molecule form framework and glue for making nanoparticle clusters and arrays

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Scientists built octahedrons using ropelike structures made of bundles of DNA double-helix molecules to form the frames (a). Single strands...

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Engineering Phase Changes in Nanoparticle Arrays: Scientists alter attractive and repulsive forces between DNA-linked particles to make dynamic, phase-shifting forms of nanomaterials

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Introducing "reprogramming" DNA strands into an already assembled nanoparticle array triggers a transition from a "mother phase," where...

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