Finding a new formula for concrete
27.05.2016 | MIT News | news.mit.edu
Researchers at MIT are seeking to redesign concrete — the most widely used human-made material in the world — by following nature’s blueprints.
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Using nanotechnology to create parallel computers
30.03.2016 | Lund University | www.lunduniversity.lu.se
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have utilised nanotechnology to create a biological computer that can solve certain mathematical problems far faster and more energy-efficiently than…
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Glass disc that can store 360TB of data for 13.8 billion years
19.02.2016 | University of Southampton | www.southampton.ac.uk
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
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Researchers Develop Completely New Kind of Polymer
29.01.2016 | Northwestern University | www.northwestern.edu
Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can lift weights, contracting and…
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Carbon doped with nitrogen dramatically improves storage capacity of supercapacitors
04.01.2016 | Phys.org | phys.org
A team of researchers working in China has found a way to dramatically improve the energy storage capacity of supercapacitors - by doping carbon tubes with nitrogen. In their paper published in the…
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UCLA Researchers Create Exceptionally Strong and Lightweight New Metal
28.12.2015 | UCLA Engineering | engineering.ucla.edu
A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus…
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New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery
16.12.2015 | University of Cambridge | www.cam.ac.uk
Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called “ultimate” battery could be overcome.
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Researchers find new, inexpensive way to clean water from oil sands production
25.11.2015 | University of Waterloo | www.uwaterloo.ca
Researchers have developed a process to remove contaminants from oil sands wastewater using only sunlight and nanoparticles that is more effective and inexpensive than conventional treatment methods.
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Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance
12.11.2015 | Vanderbilt University | news.vanderbilt.edu
If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair – to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles.
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Researchers Take First Steps to Create Biodegradable Displays for Electronics
22.10.2015 | By Sheena Rice |
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Americans, on average, replace their mobile phones every 22 months, junking more than 150 million phones a year in the process. When it comes to recycling and processing all of this…
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