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Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for...
Aug 31, 20184 min read
FeCo-selenide -- Next-generation material in energy storage devices?
In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue of NANO, a team of researchers from the China University of Mining and Technology...
Aug 29, 20182 min read
A materials scientist's dream come true
In the 1940s, scientists first explained how materials can deform plastically by atomic-scale line defects called dislocations. These...
Aug 21, 20183 min read
Future filters
The dynamics of water near solid surfaces play a critical role in numerous technologies, including water filtration and purification,...
Aug 20, 20184 min read
Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged...
Aug 14, 20184 min read
Scientists squeeze nanocrystals in a liquid droplet into a solid-like state and back again
A team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found a way to make a...
Aug 10, 20183 min read
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