Science

Visualizing How Radiation Bombardment Boosts Superconductivity: Atomic-level flyovers show how impact sites of high-energy ions pin potentially disruptive vortices to keep high-current superconductivity flowing

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High-energy gold ions impact the crystal surface from above at the sites indicated schematically by dashed circles. Measurement of the...

Mars Rover's Laser-Zapping Instrument Gets Sharper Vision

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This May 15, 2015, image from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows detailed...

3-D Improves Clothing & Gear Fit for Warfighters

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The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center’s anthropology team has played a role in the...

Defects can 'Hulk-up' materials: Berkeley lab study shows properly managed damage can boost material thermoelectric performances

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Cross sectional HRTEM image of bismuth telluride thin-film grown on gallium arsenide substrate.

Toward 'green' paper-thin, flexible electronics

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A new, environmentally-friendly paper that glows could lead to sustainable, roll-up electronics.

DiATOME enables surface preparation for AFM and FIB

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The DiATOME diamond knives for AFM sample preparation.

Printing 3-D graphene structures for tissue engineering: A new ink formulation allows for the 3-D printing of graphene structures

Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes. The fast and efficient method could open up new opportunities for using graphene printed scaffolds regenerative...

Nanosorbent Produced in Iran to Adsorb Tiny Amounts of Aromatic Hydrocarbon from Seawater

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