Advanced Science News
Technology
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Miniature Origami
From cubes to the famous origami crane—a newly developed technique for the fabrication of robust, three-dimensional mesoscale metal and ceramic structures.
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More or less hollow, but always nano: Titania templates
TiO2 nanotubes with constant outer and adjustable inner diameter can be made by electrochemical anodization.
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Carbon-Based Materials from Versatile Graphite Building Blocks
New work by Compton and Nguyen summarizes currently known strategies for preparing advanced materials from dispersions of stable graphene oxide, highly reduced...
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Nano-Networking Down-Under
Reporting from the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2010, held in Sydney, Australia.
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The Stars and Stripes: Advances in Non-Spherical Nanoparticles
Scientists who are interested in the latest progress in non-spherical noble metal nanoparticles will probably appreciate the new review articles by Tapan...
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Virotubes – Are virus assemblies the future of catalyst supports?
Górzny et al. chose an unusual support material for their noble metal catalysts: The tubular structures that are formed by self-assembly of...
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High-Performance Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered to be the next-generation reinforcement material to potentially replace conventional carbon fibers for producing superhigh-performance lightweight composites.
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Switch On: Solid-State Atomics Switches That Learn
The human brain is one of the most complicated machines that Nature has ever invented. Can we ever hope to artificially replicate...
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Bioinspired Materials: Bridging the Gap between Polymer Science and Life Sciences
Since the early days of materials research, progress in materials science and engineering has strongly benefited from achieving better insight into complex...
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Budget Energy – Cheap New Solar Cells Developed by IBM
IBM researchers break efficiency records with easy to make solar cells.
