Scientists Refine Formula for Nanotube Types
Rice University theorists determine factors that give tubes their chiral angles.
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Rice University theorists determine factors that give tubes their chiral angles.
Read more about Scientists Refine Formula for Nanotube TypesWork could inform research that leads to longer-lasting batteries or higher-capacity memory devices.
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Read more about PPPL Scientists Take Key Step Toward Solving a Major Astrophysical MysteryTeam will help develop a new, highly precise particle detector that will be used to investigate the fundamental properties of elementary particles.
Read more about IU Physics Team Receives $1.2 million to Help Build Most Precise Particle Detector
Rice University physicists find
2-D form pays no heed to defects.
Researchers at Princeton University discover a material with “colossal magnetoresistance” which could point to new developments in the storage of electronic information.
Read more about Unstoppable MagnetoresistanceSix researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sketched out their teams’ bold plans to jump-start new brain research.
Read more about Three Bay Area Institutions Join Forces to Seed Transformative Brain ResearchNew York University scientists discovery points to new ways to create “smart materials,” cutting-edge materials that adapt to their environment by taking new forms, and to sharpen the detail of 3D printing.
Read more about Goldilocks Principle Wrong for Particle Assembly: Too Hot & Too Cold is Just RightAn emerging class of electrically conductive plastics called "radical polymers” may bring low-cost, transparent solar cells, flexible and lightweight batteries, and ultrathin antistatic coatings for consumer electronics and aircraft.
Read more about Electrically Conductive Plastics Promising for Batteries, Solar CellsA University of Utah-led study using X-rays and neutron beams has revealed the inner workings of a master switch that regulates basic cellular functions, but that also, when mutated, contributes to cancer, cardiovascular disease and other deadly disorders.
Read more about Researchers Look Inside to Reveal Workings of Powerful Biochemical SwitchScientists from the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have shown a new way to reverse or eliminate energy loss by, ironically, adding loss to a laser system to actually reap energy gains.
Read more about Winning By Losing: School of Engineering Scientists Find a Way to Improve Laser Performance