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- Shaping a sustainable future for a common plastic
A broad-based scientific team from government, academia and industry joins forces to identify new opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of polyurethane - one of the most widely used but ...
- A new way to fine-tune exotic materials: Thin, stretch and clamp
One way to change the properties of a material is to stretch it just a wee bit, so its atoms are farther apart but the bonds between them don't break. This extra distance affects the behavior of el...
- Study paves the way to investigate nano-machines in action
A team of scientists has used microwaves to unravel the exact structure of a tiny molecular motor. The nano-machine consists of just a single molecule, made up of 27 carbon and 20 hydrogen atoms (C...
- Detection of Chemical and Biological Weapons at long Distances
A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and in sensors to detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scient...
- Gold Nanoparticles Help Detect a Toxic Metal: Mercury
With gold nanoparticles, DNA and some smart chemistry as their tools, scientists at Northwestern have developed a simple "litmus test" for mercury that eventually could be used for on-the-spot envi...