Creating Stretchable, Flexible Electronics With MINE Structures
The future of electronics will include soft, stretchable devices that can conform to the human body for an entirely new and intimate human-computer interaction. The…
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Using Linker Design In Metal-Organic Framework Synthesis
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are proven to be ideal platforms for heterogeneous catalysis and have been used in a wide variety of chemical reactions, showing promising…
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Observing Liquid Metal Embrittlement Cracks In Couple Systems
Bring a couple system such as brass, a copper-zinc alloy, in contact with a liquid metal — say, mercury. Mechanically stretch brass with a tensile…
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Advances In OLEDs With Copper Iodide Complexes
Since the advent of the first practical organic light emitting diodes (or OLEDs) about three decades ago, they have attracted a great deal of attention…
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When Electrons In Gold Nanoparticles Become Hot, They Transform A Glass of Water Into Clean Fuel
Metals possess many electrons that can easily absorb energy from the environment — for instance, in form of light or heat — and use that…
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Why We Should Simplify Transfers Of Research Materials
Research paradigms are changing rapidly in the modern era of science. Open access and data sharing are the new mantras. Yet when it comes to…
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Crafting Robust And Bifunctional Electrocatalysts For Electrochemical Water Splitting
Electrochemical water-splitting into hydrogen and oxygen is widely recognized as a green and effective approach to transform and store renewable energy. As such, it has…
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Toward An Accurate Understanding Of Radiative Heat Transfer In Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Heat transfer is governed by three mechanisms: conduction, convection, and thermal radiation. Conventionally, thermal radiation is often neglected in heat transfer analyses since, under most…
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What Is Preventing Electrohydrodynamic Drying Technology From Being Applied Industrially, And What Can We Do About It?
Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) drying is basically a highly efficient way to convectively dry materials. Its unique trait is that airflow is produced locally by corona discharge…
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3D Green Peanut Hull/Graphene Aerogels For Highly Efficient Oil-Water Separation
Graphene is a very amazing material for its unique gapless conical band structure, its efficient wide range of light absorption, its high mechanical strength, flexibility,…
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Photoexcited Electrons On A Nanochip: Dynamic Electro-Optical Spectroscopy
Electrochemical and optical detections are widely applied in biochemical sensing. Traditionally, electrochemical sensing happens on electrodes, and optical sensing happens on materials with spectral effects….
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