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Silk’s Nano-Scale Fibrils Give It Cryogenic Toughness to Thrive in Outer Space Temperatures

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Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibers embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the... The post Silk’s Nano-Scale Fibrils Give It Cryogenic Toughness to Thrive in Outer Space Temp...

Oct 3, 2019

A filament fit for space—silk is proven to thrive in outer space temperatures

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Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the problem, the group of researchers have discovered that silk's cryogenic toughness is based...

Oct 3, 2019

Creating a New Superconductor by Finding the ‘Magic Angle’

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Study suggests potential role for graphene in moving electricity. Researchers at The Ohio State University, in collaboration with scientists around the world, have made a... The post Creating a New Superconductor by Finding the ‘Magic Angle’ appea...

Oct 3, 2019

New Glass and Synthetic Diamond Foundation for Nanostructures

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Diamonds Are Forever: New Foundation for Nanostructures Devices smaller than the width of a human hair are key to technologies for drug delivery, semiconductors, and... The post New Glass and Synthetic Diamond Foundation for Nanostructures appeare...

Oct 2, 2019

Inventing the world's strongest silver

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A team of scientists has made the strongest silver ever -- 42 percent stronger than the previous world record. It's part of a discovery of a new mechanism at the nanoscale that can create metals much stronger than any ever made before -- whil...

Oct 2, 2019

Finding the 'magic angle' to create a new superconductor

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Researchers have made a discovery that could provide new insights into how superconductors might move energy more efficiently to power homes, industries and vehicles. Their work showed that graphene -- a material composed of a single layer of carb...

Oct 2, 2019

Finding the 'magic angle' in bilayer graphene to create a new superconductor

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Study suggests potential role for graphene in moving electricity.

Oct 2, 2019

Scientists improve pancreatic cancer diagnosis with multifunctional platinum nanoreactor

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Researchers have developed a multifunctional platinum nanoreactor geared towards point-of-care metabolic analysis that performs visual detection and mass spectrometry fingerprinting simultaneously.

Oct 2, 2019

Scientists improve pancreatic cancer diagnosis with multifunctional platinum nanoreactor

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Metabolic analysis involves ongoing biological pathways and can be more distal than proteomic/genomic approaches to in vitro diagnostics (IVD). However, point-of-care (POC) metabolic analysis needs special designed materials to detect target bioma...

Oct 2, 2019

Structural color printing of 3-D microscale objects by shrinking photonic crystals

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In a report recently published in Nature Communications, a research group led by Associate Professor Joel Yang from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) printed probably the smallest colorful 3-D model of the Eiffel Tower. Impr...

Oct 2, 2019

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