All Matter articles – Page 150
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FeatureBig troubles over tiny bubbles
Conventional wisdom suggests that nanosized bubbles should barely exist at all, so their stability for hours or days has surprised many. Philip Ball takes a close look at these minute miracles
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FeaturePlasmons with a purpose
Exploited unknowingly by craftsmen for hundreds of years, the plasmonic effects of metal surfaces have rapidly gone from curiosity to treating cancer. Andy Extance trips the light fantastic
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OpinionBlack crystal arts
The secret tricks needed to coax out crystals hark back to our alchemical past
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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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FeatureGuided by the light of a neutron candle
It is 80 years since James Chadwick discovered the neutral sub-atomic particle and 40 years since the Laue-Langevin Institute opened its doors. To celebrate, Philip Robinson visits the most intense neutron source in the world
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ResearchWhy can we walk on custard?
Scientists take a closer look at how shear-thickening fluids respond to impacts
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ResearchFluorine finally found in nature
Mystery of nasty niff from ‘fetid fluorite’ minerals is solved - it’s all down to the fluorine it releases
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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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CareersAthletic analysis
Manisha Lalloo finds out how chemistry helps sports people listen to their bodies and perform at their best
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Triazine boosts polymer energy storage
Lithium batteries could potentially store double the amount energy using a new porous framework electrode
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OpinionPlaying with water
Tom Waller discusses the science and technology that can help make the difference between swimming and winning
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OpinionProtecting the spirit of competition
Keeping sport clean requires a constant, concerted effort that carries on long after the race is run, says Michael Stow
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Stretching graphene gives quantum dots
Straining graphene's lattice can separate its electronic states and turn it into a semiconductor
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Building nanographene by organic synthesis
Japanese chemists are looking to direct cross-coupling of C–H bonds to build graphene from the bottom up
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Back to carbon black
Amorphous carbon could be a cheap replacement for expensive graphene in applications such as sensing and energy applications
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Oxo wall still stands as inorganic papers retracted
Curtain falls on controversy over creation of metal-oxo complexes as authors publish new work refuting their previous claims
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Flerovium and Livermorium take seats at the periodic table
Names for elements 114 and 116 ratified by Iupac