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Tunable color hydrogel enables multistage encryption

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Self-assembly, the spontaneous organization of molecules into ordered structures, has long captivated scientists with its elegance and potential. By harnessing the same principles that shape cellular membranes and crystalline materials, researcher...

May 31, 2024

Computational lens unmasks hidden 3D information from a single 2D micrograph

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National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have developed a computational imaging technique to extract three-dimensional (3D) information from a single two-dimensional (2D) electron micrograph. This method can be readily implemented in most...

May 31, 2024

Sparc Technologies announces field trial for its graphene-enhanced Ecosparc coating with South Australian DIT

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Sparc Technologies has announced the commencement of ecosparc (its flagship graphene-based additive product) field trials with the South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT).

May 31, 2024

Controlling ion transport for a blue energy future

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Blue energy has the potential to provide a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. In simple terms, it involves harnessing the energy produced when the ions in a salt solution move from high to low concentrations. A team including researchers fro...

May 30, 2024

Killing cancer with gold nanoclusters and a trick of the light

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RIKEN chemists have demonstrated a gold nanocluster system that carries two components of a drug in a controlled ratio for maximum cancer-cell killing effect (Chemical Science, "Clickable bisreactive small gold nanoclusters for preparing mult...

May 30, 2024

The thinnest lens on Earth is only three atoms thick

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Lenses are used to bend and focus light. Normal lenses rely on their curved shape to achieve this effect, but physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Stanford University have made a flat lens of only three atoms thick which relies on quant...

May 30, 2024

MEGAMORPH demonstrates its graphene-based display technology at Displayweek 2024

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The EU-funded MEGAMORPH project, which started in 2022, demonstrated its graphene-based display technology at Displayweek 2024.

May 30, 2024

Researchers develop eco-friendly method to produce bromographene

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It was reported that a team of researchers at India's Nagaland University (NU) has developed a novel and environmentally-friendly method for producing bromographene, a modified form of graphene. This new approach is said to not only be faster...

May 30, 2024

Engineers link oxygen to graphene quality and develop new techniques to reproducibly make the material at scale

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Graphene has been called "the wonder material of the 21st century." Since its discovery in 2004, the material—a single layer of carbon atoms—has been touted for its host of unique properties, which include ultra-high electrical conductiv...

May 29, 2024

Researchers realize controlled synthesis of Au-Ag heterodimer arrays for high-resolution encrypted information

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Recently, a research group from Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed an antielectric potential growth method for large-area preparation of Au-Ag heterodimer arrays. The prepared patterned Au-Ag dimer arra...

May 29, 2024

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