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NUS scientists use low cost technique to improve properties and functions of nanomaterials: By 'drawing' micropatterns on nanomaterials using a focused laser beam, scientists could modify properties of nanomaterials for effective applications in photonic

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Mesoporous silicon nanowires were scanned by a focused laser beam in two different patterns, imaged by bright-field optical microscope, as...

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UK's open document formats selected to meet user needs

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OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past

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Scientists will use...

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NIST shows ultrasonically propelled nanorods spin dizzyingly fast

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In this image, a nanoparticle traces the microvortical flow around a nanorod rotating at up to 150,000 RPM propelled by ultrasound.

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Iranian Scientists Use Nanosensors to Achieve Best Limit for Early Cancer Diagnosis

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Japan’s aid guided by clear vision and priorities but should focus on countries and people most in need

Japan has increased its spending on overseas development assistance (ODA) and is showing more global leadership, but needs to pay more attention to where it is spending the money and increase its focus on results and transparency.

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Fundamental Chemistry Findings Could Help Extend Moore’s Law: A Berkeley Lab-Intel collaboration outlines the chemistry of photoresist, enabling smaller features for future generations of microprocessors

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When a low concentrations of crosslinker is added to resist (left), it is able to pattern smaller features and doesn’t require longer,...

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CIQUS researchers develop an extremely simple procedure to obtain nanosized graphenes

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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) image of a clover-shaped nanographenes

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