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Folding Funnels Key to Biomimicry: Berkeley Lab Finding that Protein Folding Funnels Also Apply to Self-Assembly Should Benefit Biomimicry and Nanosynthesis

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AFM micrograph of 2D S-layers assembled on mica shows two different pathways to crystalization, one in which the domans are 2-3 nanometers...

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Stanford scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell

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This shows the new all-carbon solar cell consists of a photoactive layer, which absorbs sunlight, sandwiched between two electrodes.

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Dust's Warming Counters Half of its Cooling Effect

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Before (left) and after (right) photos of the study site in Zhangye, China, show the magnitude of the May 2008...

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Low-resistance connections facilitate multi-walled carbon nanotubes for interconnects: Hybrid electronics

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Georgia Tech Professor Andrei Fedorov demonstrates the electron beam induced deposition (EBID) system used to create graphitic nanojoints...

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NIST research highlights promise of AFM-IR for quantitative nanoscale chemical analysis

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Schematic to show the operation of AFM-IR

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NASA Lunar Scientists Develop New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation

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New research funded by NLSI theorizes that our early Earth and moon were perhaps created in a...

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NASA Rover's First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals

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First X-ray View of Martian Soil
This graphic shows results of the first analysis of Martian soil by the...

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Production of Fiber Electrodes of Electrochemical Capacitors by Using Nanotechnology

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