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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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...
View ArticleFlat-packed pentagonal carbon
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View ArticleAll the days of our lives
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View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNanotechnology and liquid crystals: How to figure out whether contaminated...
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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...
View ArticleWettability effect on nanoconfined water flow
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View ArticleComputational 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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