Nanoscience – Page 28
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NewsNanotech patent jungle set to become denser in 2013
Is a thicket of patents strangling a nascent industry?
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Cutting edge chemistry in 2012
What discoveries caused the biggest buzz in chemistry labs in 2012? Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year’s crop of chemical science papers
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Boron vapour trail leads to heterofullerenes
A simple way to produce fullerenes with other atoms in their structure could result in materials with exciting properties for solar cells and molecular electronics
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Autumn statement science boost to offset cuts
Extra £600 million announced for research infrastructure
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M&S nano fears for recycled packaging
Ambitious recycling commitment by UK grocer could be threatened by fear of nanoinks
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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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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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Detecting cancer cells and parasites
A new sensor to detect cells that over-express folate receptors, including cancer cells
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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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NewsBattle over US environment agency's human studies
EPA accused of supporting clinical trials that expose study subjects to airborne particles at unsafe levels
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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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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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ResearchDrawing gas sensors with a nanotube pencil
Simple way to make paper-based gas sensors could be used to detect almost any gas or disease biomarkers
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BusinessMeasuring nano the European way
Report concludes that companies will need lots of methods to define nanomaterials
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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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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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A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes
A variant of a vitamin can be used to separate out single-walled carbon nanotube enantiomers