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A high-tech textile to stay comfortable outdoors

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Clothing, from tank tops to parkas, helps people adapt to temperatures outdoors. But you can only put on or take off so much of it, and fluctuations in weather can render what you are wearing entirely inadequate. In a new study in ACS' Nano L...

May 5, 2021

An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence

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Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be cracked if their encryption is predictable. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied...

May 5, 2021

Release of drugs from a supramolecular cage

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How can a highly effective drug be transported to the precise location in the body where it is needed? In the journal Angewandte Chemie, chemists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) together with colleagues in Aachen present a solution u...

May 5, 2021

Superconductivity, high critical temperature found in 2D semimetal W2N3

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2D superconductors have drawn considerable attention both for the fundamental physics they display as well as for potential applications in fields such as quantum computing. Although considerable efforts have been made to identify them, materials ...

May 5, 2021

Scroll'n'roll -- nanomaterials towards effective photocatalytic pollution treatment

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We live in times when among the most limited and precious resources on Earth are air and water. No matter the geographical location, the pollution spreads quickly, negatively affecting even the purest regions like Mount Everest. Thus, anthropogeni...

May 5, 2021

Robotic flexing: biologically inspired artificial muscles made from motor proteins

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Motor proteins form microscopic biological machines that are essential to many types of movement, from the swimming of bacteria to the contraction of muscles. However, integrating motor proteins efficiently into macroscopic robotic systems is chal...

May 5, 2021

Emissive supramolecular metallacages via coordination-driven self-assembly

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Metallacages prepared via coordination-driven self-assembly have received extensive attention because of their three-dimensional layout and cavity-cored nature. The construction of light-emitting materials employing metallacages as a platform has ...

May 4, 2021

New graphite-based sensor technology for wearable medical devices

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Researchers have developed next-generation, graphene-based sensing technology using their innovative G-Putty material. The team's printed sensors are 50 times more sensitive than the industry standard and outperform other comparable nano-enab...

May 4, 2021

Nano flashlight enables new applications of light

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Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.

May 4, 2021

Nanoplastics -- an underestimated problem?

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Giant vortices of floating plastic trash in the world's oceans with sometimes devastating consequences for their inhabitants - the sobering legacy of our modern lifestyle. Weathering and degradation processes produce countless tiny particles ...

May 4, 2021

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