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Artificial 'foam' absorbs heavy metals
This spongy material will absorb heavy metals in the same solution as a sponge, which promises to be useful in removing pollutants from the water. The product is the inv…
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Insulation material from spores
A graduate student in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, USA, Eben Bayer, has received an eco-friendly organic insulation patent. The product is made from…
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Nano adhesives stick when hot
US researchers are developing an ultra-thin glue that will become more adhesive when heated. It can be used to
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US made material harder than diamonds
US researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UCLA) have created a material that is roughly equivalent to diamonds but does not require high pressure to prod…
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Producing amorphous nanofibers with new techniques
Materials researchers in the US and Spain have successfully built a new technique called
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Solar collector made from ... plastic!
New energy collectors made from plastic will be used to roof the roof, or wall panels (outside), or it can be a decorative material for the front of the house ...
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Build houses with ... printers
British researchers are building a room-sized machine that uses modern stereotyping techniques to print complete walls including bricks, plasterboard, windows, insulatio…
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Nanomaterials with record hardness
Natalia Dubrovinskaia (University of Heidelberg, Germany) together with colleagues in Bayreuth (Germany), Paris and Grenoble (France) successfully synthesized a super ha…
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Japan develops a new plastic deformed like rubber
In the future, the car's red shock bars will be made of plastic that can deform like rubber. Japan's Toray Industrial Chemical Corporation has developed a new ki…
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The world's first plastic transistor printing plant
Nanoident (Australia) has introduced the technology to print photopolymer photoelectric circuit in operation. Particles of nanometer size will be sprayed onto the substr…
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Material of yarn from fermented bacteria
From the idea of finding new materials to replace cotton and silk, Gary Cass, a West Australian University laboratory technician, invented a fermented fabric that could…
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The world's thinnest material
German and British scientists have made the world's thinnest material at just 1 / 200,000th of a second. This type of membrane is connected by hexagonal carbon atoms…
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Si nanowires are magnetic: New materials for Spintronics
Taiwan scientists first discovered ferromagnetism at room temperature in Si nanowires with ion implants. Lih Chen's group and colleagues at the National University of Qi…
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Ecological protective clothing
British designer Helen Story and fellow colleague, Tony Ryan, professor of chemistry, have teamed up to work out very unique outfits: The first clothes in the world are…
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Fabrication of nanoparticles with ultrafast laser pulses
Ultra-stable and extremely low-power femtosecond laser pulses are an ideal application for creating nanocrystal particles with extremely high uniformity (very narrow par…