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‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination
Rice University’s solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its...
Jun 18, 20193 min read
Manipulating nanoscale light in nanocavity of scanning tunneling microscope junctions
Spatial resolution of optical microscopy and spectroscopy is determined by how much one can confine light in space, which is usually...
Jun 12, 20192 min read
Making metal with the lightness of air
Gold, silver and copper are heavy metals, but LLNL scientists can now make them nearly as light as air — in a form so tiny it can ride on...
Jun 11, 20195 min read
Plumbene, graphene's latest cousin, realized on the 'nano water cube'
Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because of...
May 24, 20192 min read
Carnegie Mellon researchers create soft, flexible materials with enhanced properties
A team of polymer chemists and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new methodology that can be used to create a...
May 24, 20193 min read
Wearable cooling and heating patch could serve as personal thermostat and save energy
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable patch that could provide personalized cooling and heating...
May 18, 20194 min read
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