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University of Limerick researchers made carbon nanofibers for sodium-ion batteries from lignosulfonate, a pulp-and-paper waste, in a water-based process. The team says the process also does without the synthetic binders and additives common in battery manufacturing.
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Penn State-led researchers report an oxide thin film whose chemical disorder produces complex magnetic properties, in Advanced Materials. The authors say it could support faster, lower-power electronics and plan to take it to industry.
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Engineers at RMIT and in France made open-cell titanium lattices float in seawater for two weeks by filling their hollow struts with polyurethane foam. Their rule for predicting whether a flooded lattice floats applies beyond this foam, though two weeks at sea is a short durability test.
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researchers made millimetre-sized beads whose structural material is the enzymes themselves, with no inert carrier. The format aims to make biocatalysts as easy to store, ship and dose as industrial chemistry requires.
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A Gothenburg and HZB team filmed magnetization dynamics inside a CoFeB spin Hall nano-oscillator at BESSY II. Simulations matched the movies only after grain boundaries, weakened anisotropy and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction were added.
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An international team including the University of Edinburgh set synaptic weights in Fe3GaTe2 by turning a whole skyrmion lattice into stripes, with no cooling. The 0.66 picojoule energy figure is a projection.
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Diego Alzate-Sanchez and Jenna Kin swapped a hydrogel's permanent crosslinks for imine boronic esters. The same reversible bonds that start closing a cut within minutes let acidity take the network back to its components.
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TU Delft parked metal nanoparticles beside genetically encoded voltage indicators in living mammalian cells and got up to six times the light, along with a kinetic speed-up that years of protein engineering had not delivered.
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Rice researchers report that uniaxial strain shrinks both the residual moment and the anomalous Hall voltage in hexagonal FeS, while the underlying magnetic order sits still.
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