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Indo-US workshop on nano-structured electronic materials (IUSWNM-2013)

The Indo-US Workshop on Nanostructured Electronics Materials : Challenges & Relevance to Electronics and Energy Research (IUSWNM-2013) was jointly organized by C-MET, India, Children’s Hospital,...

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Advanced materials get a boost

The area of advanced materials, along with "robotics and autonomous systems" and grid scale energy storage, previously identified in the pre-budget statement as being key technologies by The Chancellor...

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Finding alternatives to critical raw materials

Many UK and European industries rely on a range of materials that are almost entirely imported and are often subject to extreme price volatility. Failing to find alternatives to meet this demand could...

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The hard matter of scientific fraud

Fellow blogger ChemBark recently reported how a paper released online in the American Chemical Society journal "Organometallics" has led to some surprising results. In the paper, the researchers...

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Teaching nano

The need for qualified nanotechnology specialists increases almost in line with the ever increasing array of applications being found in nanotechnology. The secret for the continued growth in this area...

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Oh no, not another breakthrough!

Although press releases often use terms such as "breakthrough", "cutting edge", "turning point" and the media themselves focus on the "major advance" as if it represented a "paradigm shift" or "major...

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Government funding in science

I noticed a recent article in this week’s Financial Times newspaper that worried me, it highlights the effects of the continued weak government spending on scientific research,  not surprisingly the...

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Sell me a thtory

There's lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium, And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium, And iodine and thorium... Aah, thorium…the nuclear panacea. Or, is it? CERN, home of the Large...

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Theoretically hitting the Top 100

Making it to the Top 100 is quite some achievement, whether the infamous annual rich lists, the pop music album charts or the most cited research papers of all time. It is this latter category for...

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Costabuck chemistry

Next time you're in a Costabuck coffee shop and dithering over whether to have a skinny frappamochachocaccino (decaff) with maple syrup topped with mint sprinkles, spare a thought for the materials...

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Flat-packed pentagonal carbon

Carbon features a lot in materials science news. It features a lot in chemistry, biology and many other areas of research too. But, organic molecules and molecular biology aside, it seems that it is...

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All the days of our lives

I'm writing this on St Patrick's Day, which is also apparently Happy Song Day, Sunday just gone was Mothering Sunday (or Mother's Day if you want just the commercialized, non-religious version), it's...

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Of tinkers, tailors, materials scientists and spies

Usually, when something seems too good to be true, it usually is. There are usually strings attached or it is some kind of bait and switch. So, for months I deferred upgrading my computer's operating...

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The nanotechnology race between China and USA

National Institutes of Health, USA (upper left) and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China (upper right) are the heart of each country's nanotechnology and nanoscience effort.Before...

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Nanotechnology and liquid crystals: How to figure out whether contaminated...

The dependence of the concentration of mobile ions in liquid crystals doped with nanoparticles on the weight concentration of nanoparticles. The contamination of nanoparticles is quantified by means of...

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Keeping Pace with Innovations in Advanced Materials: Trends Not to Miss

Materials Science has played a fundamental role in human history, so much so that historians have named entire time periods – Stone, Bronze, and Iron – after them. Each step forward in the evolution of...

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The future of construction: living-algae buildings

Algae used as a building material is a much-required innovation in modern-day construction where our planet is fast running out of renewable energy. Zero-energy buildings are designed with the aim of...

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Think big, manufacture small: microfabrication on a desktop by severe plastic...

Yuri Estrin1,2, Roman Kulagin3, Yan Beygelzimer4,5 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of...

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Wettability effect on nanoconfined water flow

Nanoconfined water flow. This schematic shows the nanoconfined water flows between two parallel plates (left) and in a nanotube (right). The flow behavior and the arrangement of water molecules in...

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Computational materials science

Computational materials science is one of the fastest growing disciplines in the field today, probably because it offers researchers the opportunity to model so many possibilities in both a time and...

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