Scientists elucidate how antimony impurities improve the performance of magnesium silicide, a promising material for converting waste heat into electricity.
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Scientists elucidate how antimony impurities improve the performance of magnesium silicide, a promising material for converting waste heat into electricity. • Email to a friend • A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, engineers have demonstrated in live animal models. • Email to a friend • Researchers developed a biodegradable, transparent, flexible and fast-acting thermotherapy patch from plant leaves. The patch is compatible with flexible electronic applications. Plant material was used to reduce the amount of electronic waste. • Email to a friend • It's still more science fiction than science fact, but perfect energy efficiency may be one step closer due to new research. • Email to a friend • Scientists have developed a method for changing the physical properties of 2D materials permanently using a nanometric tip. Their approach, which involves deforming the materials, paves the way to using these materials in electronic and optoelectronic devices. • Email to a friend • The ability to communicate new advances in science and technology has never been more important, and in that regard innovations with nanotechnology are growing more rapidly than ever with benefits to both society and the economy. However, for many consumers and the general public, the very idea of nanotechnology is both a wonder and an enigma. But how do we keep our society engaged with new nanotechnology at a time when everyone is more discerning? Well, one approach is to use storytelling. • Email to a friend • Our understanding of how light behaves has grown with the surprising discovery that colours can be seen in a new way. An example of a process called scattering, the effect occurs in some materials when light interference combines with strong electric fields. • Email to a friend • |
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