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Hexagonal Boron Nitride Semiconductors Enable Cost-Effective Detection of Neutron Signals

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2016 — One of the most critical issues the United States faces today is preventing terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into its ports. […]

Studying Blood Flow Dynamics to Identify the Heart of Vessel Failure

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2016 — When plaque, fatty deposits that build up on the inside of arteries, rupture and block blood flow, the results can be […]

Researchers Immobilize Underwater Bubbles

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 9, 2016 — Controlling bubbles is a difficult process and one that many of us experienced in a simplistic form as young children wielding […]

Tailored AFM Probes Created via 3-D Direct Laser Writing

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 8, 2016 — Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a technique that allows researchers to analyze surfaces at the atomic scale, and it’s based on […]

Swapping Substrates Improves Edges of Graphene Nanoribbons

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1, 2016 — It is now feasible to make a prized material for spintronic devices and semiconductors — monolayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges. […]

New Metamaterials Can Change Properties with a Flick of a Light-Switch

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2016 — Invisibility cloaks have less to do with magic than with metamaterials. These human-engineered materials have properties that don’t occur in nature, […]

Unlocking the Secrets of Creeping Concrete

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2016 — College students have used it to make cheap furniture, China has had shortages of it, and main character Michael Scott of […]

Making Terahertz Lasers More Powerful

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2016 — Researchers have nearly doubled the continuous output power of a type of laser, called a terahertz quantum cascade laser, with potential […]

Plasma technology can be tapped to kill biofilms on perishable fruit, foods

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2016 — Seeing fruit “turn bad and going to waste” inspired a team of researchers in China to explore using atmospheric pressure nonequilibrium […]