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Researchers use engineered bacteria to simplify biofuels production, potentially lowering cost.
Microbes often evolve and work together to thrive in no oxygen situations, hinting at how carbon and energy flow just below soils and sediments.
Discovery of a new enzyme system sheds further light on a microbe’s ability to efficiently break down inedible plant matter for conversion to biofuels and biobased chemicals.
Findings could aid contaminant management efforts at former weapons production and industrial processing sites.
The orientation-dependent thermal properties of black phosphorous could be used to keep microchips cool and improve their efficiency.
Junctions between conductive graphene and insulating nanotubes could lead to faster electronics and computers.
Understanding how gold alloy cracks provides insight for material failures for nuclear power.
Liquid metal transforms solid alloy into pore-filled structure that could be used in future batteries.
Inexpensive method allows synthesis of a tiny solar cell that pumps out fuel.
New tabletop laser achieves sought-after energies needed for advanced characterization with unprecedented precision and range.
Templates allow for materials with deliberate sizes and shapes for solar cells and electricity generation from waste heat.
Theoretical modeling of energy loss in solar cells may lead to more efficient materials to convert sunlight to electricity.
