Materials – Page 12
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Ingestible COF that delivers insulin could help diabetics duck injections
When blood glucose levels are high, glucose displaces insulin loaded in the framework
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Photocatalytic process picks out precious metals from waste electronics
Silver, gold, platinum and palladium can be retrieved sequentially from circuit boards and catalytic convertors
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Plasmon-assisted click reaction reverses typical relationship between temperature and rate
Decrease in temperature seems to extend lifetime of plasma-induced excited states, which increases probability of reaction occurring
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Super-slippery 2D material could be ideal lubricant for planetary rovers
Metal carbide material is significantly better lubricant than oils
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Tandem catalysis and smart design offer new route to polypropylene plastic
Selective combustion of hydrogen by-product improves oxidative propane dehydrogenation yields
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High performance fabric that can be made from plastic bags could slash fashion’s huge emissions
Polyethylene yarn can create clothes that are stain resistant, cool the wearer and are simple to recycle
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Cadmium cyanide surprises chemists by shrinking when irradiated with x-rays
Contraction expands potential applications for inorganic materials
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Stable 2D boron material created for the first time
Atomically thin boron stabilised by hydrogenating the material to create borophane
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Contact lenses with gold nanoparticles can help correct colour blindness
Soft lenses can correct red–green colour vision deficiency
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Giant glowing fabric made into shirtsleeve display
Flexible textile woven from conductive polymer and luminescent fibres made into wearable display and keyboard device
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Warped nanographene at odds with aromaticity
Scientists discover a π-electron circuit with an odd number of electrons in a polycyclic system
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New magnesium alloy shows exceptional corrosion resistance
Magnesium reaps big benefits from tiny amounts of calcium
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Photosensitive monomer allows polyurethanes to be degraded by light
Polymer designed to have a cleaving point after every second monomer unit
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Redox switches up possibilities for signal transduction in artificial cells
Vitamin C triggers membrane translocation in a synthetic system, which generates an amplified fluorescent response
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Mineral plastic made into fireproof foam
Pre-gelation strategy could be key to non-combustible insulation materials
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Catalyst turns mixed plastic waste into natural gas
Swiss researchers are now scaling-up the technology
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Twisted trilayer graphene supports existence of exotic superconductivity
‘Magic angle’ twist in three layers of graphene offers new insight into superconductivity current models can’t explain
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Molecular firing range allows surprisingly specific bond breaking
At energies equivalent to temperatures of several thousand Kelvin fragmentation is unexpectedly precise
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Shipping ‘skid mark’ detected in the North Sea
Antifouling coatings are an underestimated source of plastic pollution
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Holes cause sodium nitride to behave like a metal
Clathrate’s strange metallic nature caused by electronically active cavities