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Expanding the plasmonic painter's palette

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By blending paints in their palette, artists can create a broad spectrum of colors with subtly different hues. However, scientists who wish to create a similar range of structural colors, like those found on butterfly wings, are much more limited....

Mar 4, 2020

A talented 2-D material gets a new gig

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Ever since graphene's discovery in 2004, scientists have looked for ways to put this talented, atomically thin 2-D material to work. Thinner than a single strand of DNA yet 200 times stronger than steel, graphene is an excellent conductor of ...

Mar 4, 2020

Carbon nanotube composite could turn clothing into a health monitor

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Researchers have reported a new material, pliable enough to be woven into fabric but imbued with sensing capabilities that can serve as an early warning system for injury or illness.

Mar 4, 2020

Nanoscale spectroscopy review showcases a bright future

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Modern society is working closer to the nanoscale than it realises. Breakthroughs and advances in developing and manipulating nanostructures have led to technological progress that not only drives imaging and sensing devices but also makes possibl...

Mar 4, 2020

A talented 2D material gets a new gig

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Scientists tap into graphene's hidden talent as an electrically tunable superconductor, insulator, and magnetic device for the advancement of quantum information science.

Mar 4, 2020

Self-Assembly Biomaterial Discovery Enables 3D Printing of Tissue-Like Vascular Structures

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An international team of scientists have discovered a new material that can be 3D printed to create tissue-like vascular structures. In a new study published... The post Self-Assembly Biomaterial Discovery Enables 3D Printing of Tissue-Like Vascu...

Mar 4, 2020

Scientists realize a broadly tunable laser of a single perovskite nanowire

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In this work, researchers constructed single perovskite alloy nanowire with a widely tunable bandgap (2.41-2.82 eV) through a solid-solid anion-diffusion process.

Mar 4, 2020

Scientists demonstrate first non-volatile nano relay operation at 200 C

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Researchers at the University of Bristol have come up with a new type of nanoelectromechanical relay to enable reliable high-temperature, non-volatile memory.

Mar 4, 2020

The analogy between electrolytes and ion-generating nanomaterials in liquid crystals

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Both display and non-display applications of liquid crystals rely on advanced liquid crystal materials. Liquid crystal materials with new functionalities can be produced by dispersing nanomaterials in liquid crystals, resulting in a mixture of nan...

Mar 4, 2020

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