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Applying strain to tiny needles of diamond can transform their electronic properties from insulating, through semiconducting, to highly conductive.
Vegetable oils may enable stronger and more eco-friendly sound absorbing materials
Researchers have studied the effects of reversible interactions on the dynamics of new associative polymers they developed.
Replacing metallic nanoantennas with silicon ones for perovskites in solar cells.
A novel platinum-gold alloy, 100 times more durable than high-strength steel, is believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world.
Scientists have shown that DNA can control the assembly of bipyramidal gold nanoparticles into a complex crystal structure known as a clathrate.