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Turning the Emulsion Arrow of Time

July, 2017 It’s not often one can stop the flow of time, let alone reverse it. But in the case of emulsions, scientists from the Active and Intelligent Materials (AIM) Lab in...

22 June 2026

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Surface Diffusion of Single Metal Atoms on Graphene Oxide

June, 2017 Recent studies of single-atom catalysts open up the prospect of designing exceptionally active and environmentally efficient chemical processes. The stability and durability of such catalysts is governed by...

22 June 2026

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Mesoporous GaN Distributed Bragg Reflectors

May, 2017 Distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) are essential components for the development of optoelectronic devices. For many device applications, it is highly desirable to achieve not only high reflectivity and...

22 June 2026

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Nanotube lengths in textiles measured by Raman spectroscopy

April, 2017 Raman spectroscopy gives researchers in carbon nanotechnology rapid, non-destructive information on graphitic molecular structure, which is important for controlling the strength and conductivity of these materials. In particular,...

22 June 2026

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Shaping ‘Soft’ Materials via Gel Based Design

April, 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. However, they are...

22 June 2026

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Superconducting exchange coupling between ferromagnets

March, 2017 This paper shows for the first time that it is possible to use superconductivity to directly control the magnetic state of a device. The figure shows the resistance...

22 June 2026

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Dr Cate Ducati wins an RMS Medal

01 August 2018 We are really pleased to announce that Dr Cate Ducati has won the Royal Microscopical Society Medal for Innovation in Applied Microscopy for Engineering and Physical Sciences...

22 June 2026

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Microstructural characterisation of metallic shot peened and laser shock peened Ti‒6Al‒4V

February, 2017 Each time an aircraft makes a flight, the moving parts in an aerospace gas turbine engine are subjected to both high cycle vibrational stresses during the flight and...

22 June 2026

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Melt-Quenched Hybrid Glasses

February, 2017 The recent synthesis of several melt-quenched glasses from hybrid porous frameworks and coordination polymers has added a new category of glass to the existing inorganic non-metallic (e.g. oxide...

22 June 2026