Nanomaterials News
The right recipe: Engineering research improves laser detectors, batteries
Think of it as cooking with carbon spaghetti: A Kansas State University researcher is developing new ways to create and work with carbon nanotubes -- ultrasmall tubes that look like pieces of ...
7 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Amazon fungi found that eat polyurethane, even without oxygen
(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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How Spider Silk's Molecular Make-up Lets It Morph
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Discover Magazine
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UK Reveals Plans for Becoming "Graphene Hub"
Fri 3 Feb 12 from IEEE Spectrum
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Nano-oils keep their cool
7 hours ago from Nanotechweb
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Economizing chemistry, atom by atom
In chemistry, downsizing can have positive attributes. Reducing the number of steps and reagents in synthetic reactions, for example, enables chemists to boost their productivity while reducing ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Edible super insulating foam protects hand from 7000 degree welding torch
The super insulating foam in the video below is very impressive, but so is the confidence of the guy demonstrating it. How many of you would pile some foam up in your hand, then put a 7,000 ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Geek.com
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New zeolite material may solve diesel shortage
World fuel consumption is shifting more and more to diesel at the expense of gasoline. A recently published article in Nature Chemistry by a research team at Stockholm University and the Polytechnic ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Perfect nanotubes shine brightest
A painstaking study by Rice University has brought a wealth of new information about single-walled carbon nanotubes through analysis of their fluorescence.
Tue 31 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Bright lights of purity: Researchers discover why pure quantum dots and nanorods shine brighter
To the lengthy list of serendipitous discoveries – gravity, penicillin, the New World – add this: Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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