Materials – Page 13
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Holes cause sodium nitride to behave like a metal
Clathrate’s strange metallic nature caused by electronically active cavities
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Sonic energy turns liquid mercury into solid nanoparticles
New form of mercury shows electrocatalytic properties
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Single atom catalysts double up to link oxidation and reduction
Photosynthesis inspires dual electrolytic system where iron-supporting shell envelops palladium-supporting ‘yolk’
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Colour-changing coating can diagnose damage to climbing ropes or safety equipment
Heat and friction changes appearance of metal-based coating
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New web apps help standardise how chemists assign colours to MOFs
Survey highlighting the subjective nature of colour prompts scientists to create new tools to improve chemical records
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Ultrasound tops traditional synthesis in hunt for elusive golden polymer
Mechanochemical synthesis of fluorinated polyacetylene shows that mechanical force can tackle transformations that are near impossible with solvent-based chemistry
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Hybrid resin offers new dimension in flow reactor printing
New resin enables chemical resistance, UV transparency and the potential for surface functionalisation
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How tunnelling titanium turns a perfect crystal into a bad heat conductor
Quantum tunnelling is key to solving the mystery of why some defect-free crystals have such low thermal conductivities
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Pasta-shaped structures explain chiral light emission in polymers
Enhanced molecular model could lead to thinner and more efficient OLED displays
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Solar cells perovskite films made at record low cost and speed
‘First industrially relevant attempt’ to scale up perovskite solar cell manufacturing makes 12 meters of material per minute, with one meter costing only $0.25
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Conduit coated with bioink encourages damaged nerves to reconnect
New electro-conductive system is fully biodegradable
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New record efficiency for flexible perovskite solar cells
Porous planar electron transport layer boosts power conversion efficiency in flexible perovskite solar cells to 20.7%
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NMR monitors MOF assembly process
Technique adapted to interrogate nucleation and growth mechanism
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Snail slime central to sustainable strategy for making wound-healing gold nanoparticles
Nanoparticles made using mucus could be developed into acne treatments
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Moths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar
Two species have wing scales covered in a complex metamaterial
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Inorganic ‘sponge’ made from seafood waste
New form of calcite can absorb water as well as contaminants like oil and dyes
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Ancient Maya communities were first to use zeolite to purify water
2000 years ago, people in Tikal were using the world’s most advanced water purification systems
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Tunable graphene oxide–polymer membrane mimics biological membranes
Composite material’s permeability and selectivity varies with pH
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Redox-less electron transfer in ‘weird’ material could allow powerful batteries
Models predict yttrium difluorocarbene could hold twice the charge of lithium-ion cells
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Nanoparticle can starve aggressive breast cancer cells of vital copper
A new engineered particle depletes copper from mitochondria, killing breast cancer cells in mice