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There may not be much water on the ground in arid parts of the world, but there still is some water vapor that can be drawn from the air. While so-called "fog nets" provide ......
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Natural mother-of-pearl, such as mussels, is one of the hardest, most stable and stiff ......
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Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems. Cholesteric liquid crystals a......
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In the never-ending quest to create robots that are ever more capable, roboticists have often been inspired by creatures that nature has designed. Attempting to mimic humans is a popular research area, as is copying ......
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Constructing advanced functional nanomaterials with pre‐designed organized morphologies from low‐dimension synthetic and biological components is challenging. Herein, we report an efficient and universal amphiphilicity‐driven assembly strate......
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Liquid crystals are mostly formed by self-assembly of organic molecules. In contrast, inorganic materials available as liquid crystals are limited. Here we report the development of liquid-crystalline (LC) hydroxya......
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Progress towards the integration of technology into living organisms requires electrical power sources that are biocompatible, mechanically flexible, and able to harness the chemical energy available inside biological systems. Conventional batt......
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Inspired by the extraordinary characteristics of polar bear fur, lotus leaves and gecko feet, engineering researchers have developed a new way to make arrays of nanofibers that can form coatings that are sticky, re......
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Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, USA, have produced electricity from mushrooms in a process involving bacteria and swirls of graphene nanoribbons. The ‘bionic’ mushrooms are actually......
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Transparent, self-healing film fends off more than 100 liquids, including concentrated acids and low-surface-tension solventsbyMark Peplow, special to C&ENOctober 16, 2018 | APPEARED INVOLUME 96, ISSUE 42......
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(a) Schematic illustration of ultralong CNT bundles composed of continuous CNTs. (b) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of horizontally aligned ultralong CNTs. Inset: high resolution transmission electron im......
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An inexpensive new gadget makes contaminated water drinkable in minutes. (stock image) Credit: © Vasil......
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A fibrous and electronic spidroin sensor with humidity and human motion sensitivity was engineered by forming graphene sheaths with morphological ripples or overlapped cracks around spidroin f......
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Nanometerization of liquid metal in organic systems can facilitate deposition of liquid metals onto substrates and then recover its conductivity through sintering. Although having broader potential applicat......
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Marine shells not only represent a rapidly accumulating type of fishery wastes but also offer a unique sort of hybrid nanomaterials produced greenly and massively in nature. The elaborate “brick and mortar” structures of nacre e......
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Living microbes can accumulate and exhibit distinct responses to different metal ions by strong coordination between bio-macromolecules and metal ions. Thus carefully selected bio-macromolecules could possibly ......
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Melt flow instability of LLDPE (Linear Low Density Polyethylene) and its composites with three kinds of carbon fillers with different dimensionalities, including multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), thermally ......
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Conventional metal–organic framework (MOF) powders have periodic micro/mesoporous crystalline architectures tuned by their three-dimensional coordination of metal nodes and organic linkers. To add practical macroscop......
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Interfacial grafting was combined with aniline polymerization to modify nylon fibers for high and endurable conductivity. A large amount of acrylic acid grafted to the surfaces of nylon66 fibers. The grafted polyacrylic acid fu......
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With well-defined molecular architectures and geometries, natural fibrous nanostructures possess super physicochemical and biologic properties, allowing performing a variety of specific functions in l......