Materials – Page 76
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Research
An ultralight graphene structure for all seasons
Super material is fire resistant and can absorb a record breaking 600 times its own weight in oil
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Feature
Clothing gets smart
The clothing of the future may be able to do much more than preserve one’s dignity. Nina Notman reports on what you can expect from the 21st century t-shirt
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Research
Bright idea to probe bond order
An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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Research
Graphene printer helps fight Parkinson’s disease
A simple method using an everyday office appliance has been used to make graphene films for biosensors
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Graphene–boron nitride stitching to sew up electronics
Composite material could overcome graphene's limitations to produce thin, flexible electronic devices
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Research
A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes
A variant of a vitamin can be used to separate out single-walled carbon nanotube enantiomers
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Graphene reactions driven by substrate not reactant
The surface a sheet of graphene sits on determines its reactivity. US chemists have now explained why
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Research
The buzz about finding new allotropes
A particle swarm search has thrown up potential new forms of carbon, silicon and germanium
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News
Nanosilver in consumer goods under the spotlight
Danish environment agency finds no evidence of a risk to the public from goods with antibacterial properties
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Research
Why can we walk on custard?
Scientists take a closer look at how shear-thickening fluids respond to impacts
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Flattening nanotubes produces better graphene
A strategy that could lead to the first scalable production of uniform and straight graphene nanoribbons
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Research
Triazine boosts polymer energy storage
Lithium batteries could potentially store double the amount energy using a new porous framework electrode
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Opinion
Playing with water
Tom Waller discusses the science and technology that can help make the difference between swimming and winning
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Research
Stretching graphene gives quantum dots
Straining graphene's lattice can separate its electronic states and turn it into a semiconductor