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Reversible electro-optical detector for environmental sensing of pollutants

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Researchers at IMDEA Nanociencia have developed an easily-made coordination polymer as an acetonitrile chemical sensor with a simple

Jul 15, 2019

How the quest for a scalable quantum computer is helping fight cancer

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Today, someone with breast cancer may undergo several rounds of chemotherapy and spend months in limbo before medical scans can show if that particular cocktail of toxic drugs is shrinking the tumor.

Jul 15, 2019

OLED Efficiency Is Improved by Freeing Trapped Photons

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An international research team led by Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) has found a way to significantly boost OLED efficiency by extracting the trapped photons from OLEDs, which account for about 20% of the light particles that OLEDs ge...

Jul 15, 2019

A material way to make Mars habitable: Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gasses keep Earth warm

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New research suggest that regions of the Martian surface could be made habitable with a material -- silica aerogel -- that mimics Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Through modeling and experiments, the researchers show that a 2- to 3-cen...

Jul 15, 2019

Fluorine speeds up two-dimensional materials growth: By spatially confining fluorine, scientists could activate feeding gases while disabling its harmful effects

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By spatially confining fluorine, scientists could activate feeding gases while disabling its harmful effects. To put this rate in perspective, this new approach reduces the time of growing a 10 cm2 graphene from 10 minutes with previous methods, n...

Jul 15, 2019

Silica aerogel could make Mars habitable

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People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, Sagan suggested that vaporizing the northern polar...

Jul 15, 2019

Scientists create predictive model for hydrogen-nanovoid interaction in metals

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A five-year collaborative study by Chinese and Canadian scientists has produced a theoretical model via computer simulation to predict properties of hydrogen nanobubbles in metal.

Jul 15, 2019

2-D perovskite materials found to have unique, conductive edge states

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A new class of 2-D perovskite materials with edges that are conductive like metals and cores that are insulating was found by researchers who said these unique properties have applications in solar cells and nanoelectronics.

Jul 15, 2019

2D perovskite materials found to have unique, conductive edge states

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A new class of 2D perovskite materials with edges that are conductive like metals and cores that are insulating was found by researchers who said these unique properties have applications in solar cells and nanoelectronics.

Jul 15, 2019

Shape-encoded dynamic assembly of mobile micromachines

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Field-directed and self-propelled colloidal assembly can be used to build micromachines to perform complex motions and functions, although their integration as heterogenous components with specified structures, dynamics and functions within microm...

Jul 15, 2019

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