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ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
  • New method for tailoring optical processors
    Physicists and engineers have unveiled a robust new method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors that transform incoming light signals into output of a different color.

  • Non-wetting fabric that drains sweat invented
    Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers.

  • Opening doors to foldable electronics with inkjet-printed graphene
    Imagine a bendable tablet computer or an electronic newspaper that could fold to fit in a pocket. The technology for these devices may not be so far off, thanks to new research.

  • Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing
    Engineers have used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact chemical-analysis techniques.

  • Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity
    Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.

  • Kinks and curves at the nanoscale: New research shows 'perfect twin boundaries' are not so perfect
    Since 2004, materials scientists and nanotechnology experts have been excited about a special of arrangement of atoms called a "coherent twin boundary" that can add enormous strength to metals like gold and copper. The CTBs are described as "perfect," appearing like a one-atom-thick plane in models and images. New research shows that these boundaries are not perfect. Even more surprising, the newly discovered kinks and defects appear to be the cause of the CTB's strength.

  • World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
    Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland. Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities approaching the speed of light.

  • Add boron for better batteries
    A graphene-boron compound is theoretically capable of storing double the energy of common graphite anodes used in lithium-ion batteries.

  • Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
    Researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While "artificial leaf" is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an "artificial forest."

  • Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker
    With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a laboratory -- and not at the scale of inches, but microns. These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that's what they are. Rather, fields of carnations and marigolds seem to bloom from the surface of a submerged glass slide, assembling themselves a molecule at a time.