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Engineering nano-clouds that can change color, temperature and outwit heat sensors
How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight––or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus ...
Discovery in quantum materials could make electronics 1,000 times faster
Researchers at Northeastern University have discovered how to change the electronic state of matter on demand, a breakthrough ...
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The Surprising Trick to Boiling Water Without a Pot
The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology demonstrate a clever method to boil water without a metal pot, using ancient ...
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Manipulating Energy Transfer Processes between Rhodamine 6G and Rhodamine B in Different Mesoporous Hosts | The Journal of Physical Chemistry C - ACS Publications
Fluorescent dyes rhodamine 6G (R6G) and rhodamine B (RhB) were simultaneously introduced to mesoporous MCM-41, SBA-15, and MCM-48 molecular sieves. XRD, N2 adsorption−desorption isotherm, atomic ...
How to stay cool in a heat wave — even without air conditioning
From the Midwest to the East Coast, record-breaking heat is forcing cities to cancel events, open cooling centers, and warn ...
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Charge Transfer from Upconverting Nanocrystals to Semiconducting Electrodes: Optimizing Thermodynamic Outputs by Electronic Energy Transfer
Light-harvesting inorganic nanocrystals play an important role in emerging solar energy conversion and optoelectronic devices. We describe here a strategy for a new family of photoelectrodes with ...