Materials – Page 75
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FeatureGreen houses
How can chemistry help reduce the energy consumption of our houses? Fiona Case shares a blueprint for the buildings of tomorrow
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ResearchSoft robots take a leap forward
Pneumatically powered soft robots can now be powered by combustion, making their movements faster
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PodcastPrussian blue
Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was ‘bling’
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Graphene hits the funding jackpot
Consortium seeking European funding to investigate the material wins €1 billion in emerging technologies competition
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ResearchMopping up oil spills with marshmallows
Aerogel can suck up hydrocarbons from water, be wrung out and then reused
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NewsNanotech patent jungle set to become denser in 2013
Is a thicket of patents strangling a nascent industry?
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Cutting edge chemistry in 2012
What discoveries caused the biggest buzz in chemistry labs in 2012? Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year’s crop of chemical science papers
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FeatureOvercoming small obstacles
Fabrication methods combining printing and lithography have proven fertile. Andy Extance now asks how successful will they be outside the lab
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Boron vapour trail leads to heterofullerenes
A simple way to produce fullerenes with other atoms in their structure could result in materials with exciting properties for solar cells and molecular electronics
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Autumn statement science boost to offset cuts
Extra £600 million announced for research infrastructure
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ResearchLego-like DNA bricks are child’s play
Scientists make 32 nucleotide bricks that can snap together to build huge numbers of three-dimensional shapes
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Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope
Better understanding of impurities is a prelude to putting atom-thin material into computer chips
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FeatureBPA: friend or foe?
With media-fuelled anxiety over bisphenol A continuing to rise, Nina Notman looks beyond the headlines at this incredibly widely used polycarbonate monomer
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NewsChancellor singles out science to drive economic growth
UK government hopes cutting edge research and industry can extract the country from its budgetary mire
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Detecting cancer cells and parasites
A new sensor to detect cells that over-express folate receptors, including cancer cells
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World’s first all-carbon solar cell
Device made from fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene could deliver 'high performance at a low cost'
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Call for 4G windfall to go to UK science
Top scientists back campaign to fund world class infrastructure and incentivise innovation
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ResearchMOF based motorboat
Molecular self propulsion achieved by loading a MOF with a hydrophobic peptides fuel
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FeaturePolymer, heal thyself
Materials that can mend themselves sound like science fiction, but they are part of an active area of polymer chemistry. Nina Notman stitches together the different strands of research