A collaboration of German experts from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-PR), in Mainz, and the Technical University Darmstadt (TUD) announces the development of a transparent superamphiphobic coating made of glass, a material that repels both water and oil.
With it, experts hope to be able to crea... |
8 December 2011
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A group of experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announce the development of a new type of nanocomposite material. The scientists believe that the new nanoscale composite will be able to improve scratch resistance several times over. This technology could have significant implications for portable cons... |
17 August 2011
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A spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet may have discovered the first clear signs of a former hydrothermal environment on Mars. The mounds that indicated the presence of such a habitat were discovered on the slopes of a volcano, and were determined to be some three billion years old. The reason why this discovery is cri... |
21 March 2011
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Skin cancer can be more efficiently addressed by placing drugs inside modified silica particles, a new study shows. Researchers demonstrated that honeycomb-like structures made of custom-built silica can safely harbor antibodies aimed at cancer tumors, until they reach their destination. Generally, the human immune s... |
24 May 2010
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Diatoms represent one of the most important groups of eukaryotic algae and they are mostly unicellular phytoplankton. The organisms, which live in the world's seas and oceans, are responsible for producing about 25 percent of the total amounts of oxygen in the world, yet little is known about their very structur... |
19 October 2009
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Thanks to research conducted by experts at the Ohio State University, drivers around the world may drive cars outfitted with tires made partly out of tree fibers in a few years. The “active ingredient” in the new materials is microcrystalline cellulose, a compound that can easily be extracted from plant f... |
22 July 2009
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A team of chemistry specialists from the Warwick University has obtained a novel material that has an extremely high versatility and can be produced on a large scale with existing equipment. Their material is made up of tiny polymer particles covered by silica-based nanoparticle layers, and the end result can be used... |
26 November 2008
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After a long hibernation period during its second Mars winter in the northern regions of the Home Plate, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is again on the move and is now investigating the Gusev Crater where it found what appears to be a deposit of pure silica similar to the one created around hydrothermal ve... |
23 May 2008
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Mars' surface is a frozen wasteland composed primarily of basalt and full of craters. Much of the surface is deeply covered by a fine iron(III) oxide dust that has the consistency of talcum powder. The planet has no intrinsic magnetic field, even though parts of the planet's crust have been magnetized.But ... |
1 June 2007
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Fluorescence is a luminescence that is mostly found as an optical phenomenon in cold bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a photon triggers the emission of another photon with a longer wavelength.The energy difference between the absorbed and emitted photons ends up as molecular vibrations or heat. Usually t... |
31 March 2007
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Scientists have created the world's first film that has practically no reflection. This is a breakthrough compared to current nonreflective materials, and the new technology could greatly improve solar cells, empower light-emitting diodes, and boost research in quantum mechanics by imitating a "black body," an o... |
2 March 2007
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