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Electric Eel-Inspired Hydrogel-Based Device Could Be Used as 'Soft Power' Source

Researchers created an electric eel-inspired device that generated 110 volts from gels filled with water, known as hydrogels.

20 Feb 2018

University of Huddersfield Receives £1.5 million Towards Expansion of Materials Science Research

An award of £1.5 million means that a new cohort of highly-qualified experts in materials science and engineering will be trained at the University of Huddersfield, where they have access to state-of-the-art technology and resources.

20 Feb 2018

New Porous Material for Exploiting Molecules

Porous material has intermolecular cavities or spaces between atoms. These cavities, referred to as pores, can store and even separate molecules.

18 Jan 2018

Linkam highlights the work of Dr Henning Gieseler from the Division of Pharmaceutics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in the field of pharmaceutical freeze drying

Innovative freeze drying microscopy research by Dr. Henning Gieseler at FAU enhances pharmaceutical development, supported by Linkam Scientific Instruments.

From Linkam Scientific Instruments 16 Jan 2018

Novel Molecular Machine Could Have Extensive Applications in Science and Technology

Molecular machines may soon be able to deliver drugs to destroy cancer cells or patrol the body for signs of disease.

11 Jan 2018

New Class of Perovskites for More Efficient Solar Cells

A technique for developing hybrid thin-film materials, which are usually incredibly difficult to develop, has been devised by material scientists from Duke University.

5 Jan 2018

Researchers Develop Water Cloaking Concept Based on Electromagnetic Forces

Scientists have created a water cloaking concept hinged on electromagnetic forces that has the ability to eliminate the wake of an object, thereby considerably minimizing its drag while at the same time assisting it in evading detection.

12 Dec 2017

New Insights into Superconductivity of Niobium Boride

For more than six and a half decades, niobium boride (NbB) has been regarded a typical example of a superconducting material. This presumption has been noted down in manuals related to physics of condensed matter and scientific articles journals, and has at present been challenged in a research carried out by scientists from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and from San Diego State University, United States.

8 Dec 2017

Stretched Diamond Micro-Needles Could be Used as Detectors

A team of researchers from the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Faculty of Physics discovered a stretching of acicular diamond crystallites under an electric field action.

7 Dec 2017

New Simple Method Used to Synthesize Amorphous Diamond for First Time

Earlier this year, a technique involving moderately high temperatures, high pressures, and a small amount of glassy carbon as starting material was used to synthesize amorphous diamond for the first time.

1 Dec 2017

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