Materials – Page 81
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Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope
Better understanding of impurities is a prelude to putting atom-thin material into computer chips
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FeatureBPA: friend or foe?
With media-fuelled anxiety over bisphenol A continuing to rise, Nina Notman looks beyond the headlines at this incredibly widely used polycarbonate monomer
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Detecting cancer cells and parasites
A new sensor to detect cells that over-express folate receptors, including cancer cells
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NewsChancellor singles out science to drive economic growth
UK government hopes cutting edge research and industry can extract the country from its budgetary mire
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World’s first all-carbon solar cell
Device made from fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene could deliver 'high performance at a low cost'
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Call for 4G windfall to go to UK science
Top scientists back campaign to fund world class infrastructure and incentivise innovation
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ResearchMOF based motorboat
Molecular self propulsion achieved by loading a MOF with a hydrophobic peptides fuel
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FeaturePolymer, heal thyself
Materials that can mend themselves sound like science fiction, but they are part of an active area of polymer chemistry. Nina Notman stitches together the different strands of research
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ResearchAn ultralight graphene structure for all seasons
Super material is fire resistant and can absorb a record breaking 600 times its own weight in oil
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ResearchBright idea to probe bond order
An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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FeatureClothing gets smart
The clothing of the future may be able to do much more than preserve one’s dignity. Nina Notman reports on what you can expect from the 21st century t-shirt
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Graphene printer helps fight Parkinson’s disease
A simple method using an everyday office appliance has been used to make graphene films for biosensors
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Graphene–boron nitride stitching to sew up electronics
Composite material could overcome graphene's limitations to produce thin, flexible electronic devices
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ResearchMOF smashes gas storage ceiling
Recording-breaking metal organic frameworks adds weight to idea that they can mop up much more gas than previously thought
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A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes
A variant of a vitamin can be used to separate out single-walled carbon nanotube enantiomers