Hybrid material as gold-leaf substitute (Phys.org) —A team of
researchers headed by Professor Raffaele Mezzenga has created a
hybrid material out of gold and milk proteins that looks like a
wafer-thin gold leaf. Thanks to its properties, it could ...
Holding the salt: Graduate student works to improve water
filtration, desalination "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop
to drink," English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote of the
anguish felt by sailors on being surrounded by undrinkable water
when faced with thirst. Unzipped nanotubes unlock potential for
batteries (Phys.org) —Researchers at Rice University have come
up with a new way to boost the efficiency of the ubiquitous
lithium ion (LI) battery by employing ribbons of graphene that
start as carbon nanotubes. Controlling magnetic clouds in
graphene (Phys.org) —Wonder material graphene can be made
magnetic and its magnetism switched on and off at the press of a
button, opening a new avenue towards electronics with very low
energy consumption. 2-D electro