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Organic resins increase the efficiency of solar cells
A team of scientists led by chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu, at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, found that using organic plastic semiconductors could double. Quan…
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Manufacturing cheap thermoelectric materials
The researchers were led by Dr. Ole Martin Løvvik, working at the Center for Nanoscience and Materials Science, University of Oslo, Norway, claiming to have made thermoe…
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Produces the world's smallest 'four wheel' nanoparticles
A team of Dutch scientists has created a super-small, four-wheeled nanoparticle, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.
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Use plasma in battery design
Engineers at Case Western Reserve University in the United States have built an electrochemical battery that uses plasma as an electrode instead of metal.
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Create new heart patch
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of patch with gold and alginate nanofibers. Star clusters of gold nanowires can be seen in these images.
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The world's smallest nanotubes
Tufts University researchers have announced they have succeeded in making the engine, to date, the smallest in the world, according to a report in the journal Nature Nan…
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Detecting new types of metabolism of neutron particles
Physicists have just discovered a new type of neutron-based elementary particles. They participate in two of the four basic types of interaction, weak interaction and co…
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Shoot down airplanes by air
The US Navy has successfully researched a type of anti-aircraft gun capable of destroying airplanes with ambient air.
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Capture tiny objects with a new generation microscope
A microscope using a spiral electron beam will work in a normal way, except that the first electron beam must go through a holographic image ...
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Is it possible to save whole movie of the year into a phone?
Now, IBM researchers are moving closer to commercializing the testing technology that could save a cellphone for all the movies made this year.
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Antimatter is really meaningful
The European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) recently published its successful journal Nature in 'confinement' of hydrogen antimatter.
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Electronic nose helps to diagnose cancer early
Bionic electrons can diagnose fast, accurate and localized cancers such as lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer.
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Cheap quantum computers are no longer a distant future
In the near future, quantum computers can become a popular item at an affordable price.
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New opportunities in making hydrogen
Photosynthesis produces the food that we consume and the oxygen that we breathe, does it help solve future energy needs by creating clean burning hydrogen?
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Proof of 'waterfall effect' in photovoltaic cells
To answer the question: 'Does the cascade effect really exist?', Dutch scientists have just conducted a study to prove the existence of this effect, paving the way for t…