Materials – Page 74
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FeaturePress P to print
The use of 3D printers to create lab equipment, deliver reagents and even build biomaterials is on the rise. Katharine Sanderson installs drivers and prints away
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PodcastCyanoacrylate
It repairs objects, heals wounds and fights crime. It puts the ‘super’ in superglue. Emma Stoye introduces cyanoacrylate
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FeatureSmall lights, big impression
Andy Extance goggles at the display revolution, the culmination of 30 years of research into organic light emitting diodes
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Research
Catching a reaction in the act
AFM images a reactant and its cyclised products on a silver surface
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Understanding defects in graphene
Gaseous organic by-products that form during graphene preparation signal dents in its structure
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ResearchSolar panel slims down to a few atoms thick
Photovoltaic cell just 20Å wide has unusually high quantum efficiency
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Food safety test for harmful dye
Graphene electrode modified with titanium dioxide helps spot Orange II in ketchup and chilli sauces
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Inorganic nanosheet to enhance batteries
One-atom thick cobalt oxide structures show potential as electrodes for lithium ion batteries
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Carving graphene snowflakes with gases
Modifying a simple etching technique can carve fractal patterns into graphene sheets
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Biomimetic bricks inspired by mother of pearl
Development of a graphene composite with a tensile strength greater than nacre
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ResearchDroplet printing assembles soft networks
New 3D printing technique vastly scales up droplet networks, opening up new potential applications from soft robotics to drug delivery
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News
Ionic liquids win Great British Innovation Vote
Potential of green solvents recognised as UK technology that will shape the 21st century
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NewsJari Kinaret: Flagging up graphene
The head of Europe’s €1 billion graphene flagship talks to Chemistry World about nurturing a disruptive technology
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NewsGermany, China create nanotech centre
Collaboration will look to marine animals for bio-inspired materials to treat conditions like osteoporosis
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Research
Harry Kroto: From light years to nanometres – and back
Harry Kroto tells us how analytical chemistry shaped the discovery of fullerenes
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FeatureTiny insights
Chemists and materials scientists are adopting a range of three-dimensional imaging techniques to reveal structural secrets. Andy Extance looks inside their work
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