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New biodegradable polyurethane foams are developed from wheat straw

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Every year around 734 million tons of wheat straw are produced worldwide, a large amount of waste, which is cheap and has had no well-defined use until now. Recently, the RNM-271 Chemical Engineering and FQM-383 NANOVAL Organic Chemistry research ...

Jan 19, 2021

Research finds tiny bubbles tell tales of big volcanic eruptions

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Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth's biggest volcanic eruptions and geoscientists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have discovered some of those stories are written in nanoparticles.

Jan 19, 2021

A little friction goes a long way toward stronger nanotube fibers

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Carbon nanotube fibers are not nearly as strong as the nanotubes they contain, but Rice University researchers are working to close the gap.

Jan 19, 2021

Nano-thin piezoelectrics advance self-powered electronics

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A new type of ultra-efficient, nano-thin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies and even deliver pacemakers powered by heart beats.

Jan 19, 2021

A little friction goes a long way toward stronger nanotube fibers: Model may lead to better materials for aerospace, automotive, medical applications

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Carbon nanotube fibers are not nearly as strong as the nanotubes they contain, but researchers are working to close the gap with a computational model that shows nanotube length and the friction between them are equal contributors.

Jan 19, 2021

Tiny bubbles tell tales of big volcanic eruptions: Nanocrystals may explain staggering number of bubbles in erupted lava

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Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth's biggest volcanic eruptions and geoscientists have discovered some of those stories are written in nanoparticles.

Jan 19, 2021

DNA origami enables fabricating superconducting nanowires: Fabricating nanoelectronic circuits of the future just got a lot more interesting, thanks to DNA origami

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Researchers describe how to exploit DNA origami as a platform to build superconducting nanoarchitectures. The structures they built are addressable with nanometric precision that can be used as a template for 3D architectures that are not possible...

Jan 19, 2021

DNA origami enables fabricating superconducting nanowires

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The quest for ever-smaller electronic components led an international group of researchers to explore using molecular building blocks to create them. DNA is able to self-assemble into arbitrary structures, but the challenge with using these struct...

Jan 19, 2021

Modulating helical nanostructures in liquid crystal phase by molecular design

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A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Yuki Arakawa (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) has successfully developed sulfur-containing liquid crystal (LC) dimer molecules) with oppositely directed ester bonds, which exhibit a helic...

Jan 19, 2021

Light-induced twisting of Weyl nodes switches on giant electron current

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Scientists have discovered a new light-induced switch that twists the crystal lattice of the material, switching on a giant electron current that appears to be nearly dissipationless. The discovery was made in a category of topological materials t...

Jan 19, 2021

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