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Nanocoatings Reduce Skin Inflammation Caused by Implants in Body

Iranian researchers from Shiraz University of Technology designed a nanocoating in a laboratorial research, which reduces inflammation caused by implants in the body.

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Printing Silicon on Paper, with Lasers

In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to replace silicon. To this end, a wealth of recent research into fully flexible electronic circuitry has focused on various organic and metal-oxide ink materials, which often lack all the favorable electronic properties of silicon but offer superior "printability."

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Printed silicon on paper Caption: High-moiblity polysilicon layer was directly formed on paper by coating liquid silicon, which was annealed by pulsed laser-light.

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New tabletop detector 'sees' single electrons: Magnet-based setup may help detect the elusive mass of neutrinos

MIT physicists have developed a new tabletop particle detector that is able to identify single electrons in a radioactive gas.

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A three-dimensional interpretation of "event zero." The frequency increases slowly as the electron loses energy, ending in the first of six or possibly seven visible frequency jumps before the electron is ejected from the trap.

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Ethylene Nanosorbent, a Novel Product to Decrease Agricultural Waste

Ethylene nanosorbent is a product whose application in fruit and agricultural products storehouses and refrigerators significantly decreases the loss of agricultural products.

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Better battery imaging paves way for renewable energy future

In a move that could improve the energy storage of everything from portable electronics to electric microgrids, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have developed a novel X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries containing a new type of material, iron fluoride.

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Chemical phase map shows how the electrochemical discharge of iron fluoride microwires proceeded from 0 percent discharge (left), to 50 percent (middle), to 95 percent (right).

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Quantum model reveals surface structure of water: National Physical Laboratory, IBM and Edinburgh University have used a new quantum model to reveal the molecular structure of water's liquid surface

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute in collaboration with IBM and the University of Edinburgh, has used a new quantum model to reveal the molecular structure of water's liquid surface.

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This shows the heterogeneous electronic density created by the diverse molecular orientations at the liquid-vapor interface of water.

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How to maximize the superconducting critical temperature in a molecular superconductor: International team led by Tohoku University opens new route for discovering high Tc superconductors

An international research team, led by Professor Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University, has investigated the electronic properties of the family of unconventional superconductors based on fullerenes*1 which have the highest known superconducting critical temperature (Tc) among molecular superconductors*2.

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The fullerene molecules consist of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a truncated icosahedral shape (a soccer ball) and pack in a regular cubic-close-packed array in three dimensions. Alkali metal ions (blue spheres) occupy vacant interstitial holes of octahedral and tetrahedral symmetry.

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New Biological Nano-Fertilizers Presented in Iran as Appropriate Replacements for Chemical Fertilizers

The product is a product of the knowledge-based Fanavar Nano-Pazhoohesh Markazi Company, which has been designed and produced in Iran to improve the fertility of soils and various agricultural plants.

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Newly-Developed Nanocatalysts Increase Performance of Fuel Cells

Iranian researchers used nanotechnology and produced a type of nanocatalyst which modifies the performance of fuel cells.

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Lanthanide-Organic Framework Nanothermometers Prepared by Spray-Drying

A work in Advanced Functional Materials shows how spray-drying prepared MOF nanoparticles containing lanthanide metals may be used as nanothermometers operative over a wide range of temperatures, in particular, in the cryogenic range.

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