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July, 2016 In this Letter, we report a piezoelectric nanogenerator that was fabricated using a simple, fast and scalable template-assisted electrodeposition process, by which vertically aligned zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires...
22 June 2026
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July, 2016 Under normal conditions the noble gases, helium, neon and the heavier argon, krypton, xenon and radon, are unreactive. One of the enduring geochemical mysteries is the apparent lack...
22 June 2026
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June, 2016 The field of two-dimensional materials has seen enormous growth since the discovery of graphene, largely driven by the promise of exotic electronic properties that can be exploited in...
22 June 2026
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June, 2016 A flexible and robust piezoelectric nanogenerator (NG) based on a polymer-ceramic nanocomposite structure has been successfully fabricated via a cost-effective and scalable template-assisted hydrothermal synthesis method. Vertically aligned...
22 June 2026
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June, 2016 An international collaboration, including the University of Cambridge, has shown that quantum mechanical effects are central to the high temperature (up to 203K, -70 degrees Celsius) superconductivity that...
22 June 2026
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May, 2016 A large scale community research collaboration, including Chris Pickard [1], has shown that widely used computer codes for first principles materials property prediction agree with each other. These...
22 June 2026
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April, 2016 Active metal brazing is a relatively simple and versatile technique to join a wide range of ceramics to themselves or to metals. Braze filler alloys based on the...
22 June 2026
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March, 2016 High temperature superconductors (YBa2Cu3O7 and GdBa2Cu3O7) allow for passive and stable magnetic levitation when used in combination with rare-earth permanent magnets. This levitation has advantages for rotary magnetic...
22 June 2026
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March, 2016 Indium gallium nitride quantum well lighting emitting diodes (LEDs) have superior energy efficiency compared to traditional lighting. However, the presence of a strong electric field within the quantum...
22 June 2026
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February, 2016 The lack of thermal stability of perovskite solar cells is hindering their progress towards adoption in the consumer market. In this paper we produced devices according to four...
22 June 2026