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Professor Geoffrey Ozin discusses what he believes may be the largest challenge of the century—the development of an artificial photosynthetic machine.
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MIT professor Mildred Dresselhaus takes a look at the latest work in fullerene chemistry.
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DNA Encoding with Fluorescent Upconverting Nanoparticles Embedded in Microbarcodes
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A new method of making ferroelectrics that uses a heated probe tip means they can be produced directly on virtually any substrate and in any shape.
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The possibility to obtain work from nanomachines is a step closer to reality as scientists provide a quantitative framework describing interfacial interactions in a nanobiomolecular system.
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