All Matter articles – Page 83
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ResearchSniffing out museums' decaying plastic artefacts
Analysing volatile compounds may help museums protect old celluloid film and other polymer heritage items
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ResearchProduction line for gecko-inspired adhesive
Scientists devise manufacturing process for material that replicates a gecko’s remarkable stickiness
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PodcastLivermorium
Meet the Mayor of Livermore, California, and discover how his city has been immortalised on the periodic table
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ResearchIce cubes melt to make single atom metals
Atomically dispersed metals made by ultra-slow reagent
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ResearchAlternative pathway to phosphorus compounds skips white phosphorus
Intermediate opens way to making pesticides and flame retardants with novel silicon–phosphorus anion
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Research‘Bullet-proof’ wood developed
Chemical treatment makes ‘densified’ wood 10 times tougher than its natural counterpart
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ResearchFlocks of nanorobots could form artificial muscles
Hundreds of biomolecular robots can be programmed to swarm together to create shapes
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ResearchUranium at heart of rare hydrogen cyanide complex
Turquoise powder is only second example of a hydrogen cyanide complex of a uranium compound
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ResearchSkin-mimic material is as tough as teeth
Self-healing material combines best of skin’s properties
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ResearchCarbyne equivalents fire up carbon–carbon bond formation
‘Easy-to-make’ reagent adds a wide variety of functional groups to aromatic rings
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FeatureHandheld spectrometers
Andy Extance discovers how portable infrared absorption and Raman scattering analysis tools are inspiring new uses – even within people’s homes
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ResearchAtom thin mirrors’ reflectivity can be turned on and off
Molybdenum diselenide layer mirrors could have optoelectronic applications