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Mat baits, hooks and destroys pollutants in water
A polymer mat developed at Rice University has the ability to fish biologically harmful contaminants from water through a strategy known...
Mar 28, 20184 min read


World first: new polymer goes for a walk when illuminated
Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology and Kent State University have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore...
Jun 29, 20172 min read


Scientists set record resolution for drawing at the one-nanometer length scale
The ability to pattern materials at ever-smaller sizes -- using electron-beam lithography (EBL), in which an electron-sensitive material...
May 3, 20173 min read


Self-assembling polymers provide thin nanowire template
For the chips in our computers and smartphones to get faster and faster, their components – the circuits and wires through which signals...
Apr 13, 20173 min read


Carbon nanotubes self-assemble into tiny transistors
Carbon nanotubes can be used to make very small electronic devices, but they are difficult to handle. University of Groningen scientists,...
Apr 6, 20173 min read


Built from the bottom up, nanoribbons pave the way to 'on-off' states for graphene
A new way to grow narrow ribbons of graphene, a lightweight and strong structure of single-atom-thick carbon atoms linked into hexagons,...
Apr 3, 20173 min read
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