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Liquid Metal-Organic Frameworks

November, 2017 Metal-organic frameworks are porous materials that are proposed for use in a variety of gas storage and separation, catalytic, nuclear waste recycling and drug-delivery applications. Over 60,000 exist,...

22 June 2026

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Machine Learning Predicts Laboratory Earthquakes

November, 2017 Predicting the timing of an earthquake is a fundamental goal of scientists. A team from the University of Cambridge,  ‎Los Alamos National Laboratory and Boston University have identified a...

22 June 2026

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A possible route to room-temperature superconductivity under pressure

November, 2017 The hunt for high temperature superconductivity has been reinvigorated by the experimental discovery that compressed H2S exhibits a Tc of up to 203K at megabar pressures (1Mbar=100GPa). A...

22 June 2026

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Survival of the Fittest—Nanotubes versus High Power Laser

November, 2017 The Cambridge Spinning Process, invented here at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, uniquely generates textiles composed of aligned, long-length single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), all in...

22 June 2026

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Complex atomic networks

October, 2017 Complex network analysis is a computational tool that be been used to study problems as diverse as uncovering hidden social groupings and divining new tasty recipes. A collaboration...

22 June 2026

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A triboelectric generator based on self-poled Nylon-11 nanowires

October, 2017 Energy harvesting from ubiquitous ambient vibrations represents a viable energy solution for the rapidly increasing number of low-power autonomous, wireless, portable and wearable electronic devices. Triboelectric generators have...

22 June 2026

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An ultrafast polarised single photon source at 220 K

October, 2017 Single photon sources are light emitting devices which produce exactly and only one photon on demand.  To exploit such light emitters to encode information totally securely, using quantum...

22 June 2026

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Spectral Converters for Luminescent Solar Devices

August, 2017 Solar energy conversion technologies have a crucial role to play in our transition to an all-renewables society. However, single junction solar cells, such as those now widely found...

22 June 2026

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Revealing chemical changes at an active catalyst surface in 3D

August, 2017 A new electron microscopy and data processing technique has been developed to reveal sub-nanometre changes in the chemistry at the surface of a cerium oxide-based catalyst. Cerium oxide catalysts, used widely...

22 June 2026

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Candy-Cane Morphology Solves 3 Supercapacitor Problems at Once

September, 2017 Supercapacitors promise recharging of phones and other devices in seconds and minutes vs hours for batteries. Current technologies, however, are not usually flexible, have insufficient capacities, and their performance...

22 June 2026