Materials – Page 9
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The diamond family welcomes its newest member – paracrystalline diamond
Amorphous diamond with pockets of natural diamond makes theoretical paracrystals a reality
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Porous material made by mimicking deep Earth conditions
Extreme temperature changes water’s properties so it can replace organic solvent
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First firm evidence for ferroelectric ice
Water becomes electrically polarised when sandwiched between graphene sheets
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Record-breaking hexagon made out of fused aromatic rings
90 rings form the largest structure of its kind ever made
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Perovskite frozen in MOF glass glows in rainbow colours
Porous material preserves lead halide perovskite’s luminescent form while tailoring emission colour
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Model performs reality check on adsorbents for carbon capture
Tool could save researchers time by assessing new materials from a variety of angles
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Wood made foldable and stronger than steel
Next-level modification sees natural material made into knives, nails and honeycomb structures that can carry the weight of a car
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Flawless quasicrystals may be possible to synthesise simply
Cutting misalignment should allow perfect structures to form
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Polymerisation used to synthesise 2D material inside living cells
Sheets are larger than those cells can take up and the technique could find uses in imaging
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Meltable MOF glass made with ionic liquid
New family of glassy porous materials can be melted and moulded into any shape
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First fundamentally new form of adsorption for more than 90 years driven by molecular machines
Unlike physisorption and chemisorption, the newly discovered ‘mechanisorption’ is an active process that can store energy or chemicals
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Squeezed crystal becomes better catalyst
Fine-tuning platinum’s lattice strain with removable atomic spacers boosts its catalytic activity by up to 50%
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Materials swap cuts cost of green hydrogen device
Coating allows titanium electrolyser components to be replaced with stainless steel
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New process could turn scrap metal into hi-tech steel in demand for cars and alloys
Ultra-low carbon steel created electrochemically
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Liquid crystals under pressure create squid-like camouflage
Pneumatic membranes trigger full-spectrum colour shifting on demand
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Giant molecular cage protects plastic-eating enzyme
Caged protein withstands temperatures much hotter than its usual melting point and becomes 1000 times more resistant to solvents
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Sunlight transforms plastic into tens of thousands of new compounds
Marine plastics don’t persist forever, sun exposure can break them down into extremely complex chemical compounds in just weeks
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Heavy metal proteins are the secret weapon in ant bites
Protein-rich biomaterials containing zinc, manganese, copper and bromine allow ants, crabs and scorpions to pack more punch for their size
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Eggshell-ent MOFs made from sustainable precursors
Green starting materials for calcium-based frameworks
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Water splitting electrocatalyst made from unconventional alloy containing 14 elements
Simple dealloying process creates complex nanoporous alloy