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Chemistry World July 18, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Flexible electronics boost with stretchiest conductor ever made US researchers have made the stretchiest electrical conductor yet using gold nanoparticles embedded in an elastic polymer. The new material can stretch to over five times its size while still conducting well enough to power small devices. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Hovering reaction driven by sound Colleagues at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used their acoustic levitator to create an explosive mid-air reaction between a tiny water droplet and a grain of sodium. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2013 Laura Howes |
Intelligent knife smokes out cancer All of the cancer needs to be excised, but surgeons want to remove as little healthy tissue as possible. That led Zoltan Takats at Imperial College London, UK, to wonder if mass spectrometry could help. |
Chemistry World July 15, 2013 Emily Skinner |
Potato powered biomotors are cheap as chips Enzyme rich potato tissue can be used to cheaply and quickly mass produce bubble powered millimotors, new research shows. |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Philip Ball |
DNA waves don't wash It looks like one of the most astonishing discoveries in a century, yet it was almost entirely ignored. And it came from Luc Montagnier. The information in a DNA strand could be transmitted, via water, by electromagnetic emissions. |
Chemistry World July 12, 2013 Matthew Smith |
Cobalt redox couple boosts thermoelectric cells Scientists in Australia have improved a technology that recycles waste heat into useable energy by using ionic liquids containing cobalt redox couples as the electrolytes in thermoelectric cells. |
Chemistry World July 11, 2013 Daniel Johnson |
A sound idea to redefine temperature UK scientists want to redefine temperature using the Boltzmann constant, changing the way in which it has been calculated for over 50 years. |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 David Bradley |
Solar-powered autoclave punks pathogens It sounds like the most desirable machine in a 'steampunk' laboratory: a solar-powered autoclave that sterilizes using light-harvesting nanoparticles that blast out steam. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Why is silver deposition so fast? Researchers appear to have solved one of electrochemistry's more baffling mysteries: why it is that metal ions deposit onto an electrode at an apparently unfeasibly fast rate. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2013 Charlie Quigg |
Flat-pack structures build themselves Scientists in the US have developed flat pack structures that can autonomously assemble into three-dimensional shapes on application of an electrical current. |
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