Location: Nepoli, France
Watching a metal transform into a superconductor, it may not be obvious that
this transition provides access to some of the same physics that governed the
cooling of the universe following the Big Bang. Yet at the root of both of these...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Ultracold atoms are still too hot. This may seem a ridiculous claim—after
all, the low-temperature exploits of the purveyors of quantum gases are
notorious. Laser cooling can flash-freeze atoms to temperatures in the micro-
and nanokelvin...
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Location: Tsukuba, Japan
Among all available materials, diamond has the optimal characteristics with
respect to hardness, thermal conductivity, light transmission wavelength range,
and chemical stability. Furthermore, as a semiconducting material, diamond shows...
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Location: California, United States
In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like
an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of
hexagons. But this nanoscopic material called graphene, first generally
acknowledged...
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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: California, United States
The aim of this research is to develop devices based upon two dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles, with an optical signatures that are tunable and can measure changes their environment. We have synthesized silver nanoparticles of 3-6 nm...
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Location: California, United States
If you could remove the layers of circuitry in your computer and touch the main processor while it's running a video, you would feel its blistering heat, which can exceed 100 °C. Such heat, a natural by-product of shuttling electrons
through...
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Location: NIST, United States
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated their ability to measure relatively low levels of stress or strain in regions of a semiconductor device as small as 10 nanometers across. Their recent...
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Location: Michigan, United States
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon
nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves
within these tiny channels.
This is the first time researchers were able to...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication
between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves
in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be useful probes
of...
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Location: College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, United States
Researchers at North Carolina
State University have found that quantum dot nanoparticles can penetrate the
skin if there is an abrasion, providing insight into potential workplace...
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Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), United States
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size
and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.
Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth
at the time of...
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Location: University of Maryland, United States
University of
Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the
mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than
any...
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery
to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a
repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate
patterns...
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Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States
For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test
their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the
dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in
their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as
automobile...
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Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
In an achievement some see as the "holy grail" of nanoscience,
researchers at the U.S.
Department of Energy's Brookhaven...
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