Location: Illinois, United States
Among the frontier challenges in chemistry in the twenty-first century are
the interconnected goals of increasing synthetic efficiency and diversity in the
construction of complex molecules.
Oxidation reactions of C–H bonds,...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of
energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of
20 major manufacturing processes.
Overall, new manufacturing systems are...
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Location: Illinois, United States
Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive
molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for
studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.
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Location: Yale University, United States
Without better techniques for manufacturing nanoscale devices, many will remain in the lab. The chip industry also needs better nanoscale manufacturing techniques to create ever denser data storage and ever faster microprocessors. A technique...
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Location: Austin, United States
A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and...
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Location: New Orleans, United States
The failure of the New Orleans' levees after Hurricane Katrina struck the coastal city in 2005 is now labeled "the worst engineering disaster of the United States" by a professional organization that knows –– the American Society of...
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created nanoscale particles that can self-assemble into various optical devices. By controlling how densely the tiny silver particles assemble themselves, the researchers can make several...
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Location: Dartmouth College, United States
Two
Dartmouth researchers have determined that the element chromium displays
electrical properties of magnets in surprising ways. This finding can be used in
the...
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Location: University of Illinois, United States
The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures
and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now
possible with a process developed by researchers at the
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Location: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Department of Energy, United States
TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope —
capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth
of a meter), less than the diameter of a single
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Location: University of Illinois, United States
Researchers at the University
of Illinois have found a simple solution to a problem that has plagued
scientists for decades: the tendency of...
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Location: Washington University, St. Louis, United States
Jupiter’s moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is
bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered
ocean and determine its potential for harboring life.
“We’ve learned a lot about...
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Location: Iowa State University, United States
Let's say a fuel derived from biomass
produces too much soot when it's burned in a combustion chamber designed for
fossil fuels.
How can an engineer find the source...
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Location: University of Illinois, United States
Questions about human migration from Asia to the Americas have perplexed
anthropologists for decades, but as scenarios about the peopling of the New
World come and go, the big questions have remained. Do the ancestors of Native
Americans...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new
technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used
in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquids.
Researchers have...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
In work that could one day help prevent millions of dollars in economic
losses for seaside communities, MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine
organisms likely produce the red tide toxin that periodically shuts down U.S.
beaches and...
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Location: 405 N. Mathews Ave,Urbana, IL 61801, United States
The world of alive for a long time exploits semi permeable membranes for its
operations. The channels and the ionic pumps of the lipid membranes of the
neurons are one of the most known examples. In a general way, there are all
kinds of...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
To develop techniques for making highly coherent quantum systems using integrated circuits. This includes developing new high fidelity measurements techniques for quantum systems. Ultimately, we would like to help make large-scale quantum...
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Location: 3255 Beckman Institute, MC-251,405 N. Mathews,Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
A new computational tool in nanotechnology research has been developed at the
University of Illinois for simulating ion transfers in artificial membranes,
decreasing time requirements for certain computations from years, in some cases,
to...
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