Due to the ever increasing energy demand and growing global concern over the environmental impact of CO2 emissions, there is a need to seek solutions to transit from fossil fuels to sustainable energy. This "Thought Leader' article discusses how harvesting waste energy with nanostructured thermoelectric materials just may help this cause.
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Thermodynamic relations may be regarded as the motor driving chemical processes (while chemical kinetics represents the brakes). In order to operate, the relations need to be powered with the fuel of values for the thermodynamic quantities concerned...
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The statement that a materials functionality is controlled by defects is perhaps the most recognized paradigm of materials science, solid state electrochemistry, and condensed physics alike.
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Nanotechnology has been well supported in the UK within a rather restricted budget, in ways that have encouraged the effective use of funds and with a clear policy to translate the outputs of basic research into future applications.
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Microfluidics is a research area within MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and is concerned with the control of the flow of fluids measured in micro, nano, or even Pico, litre, quantities. The fluid can be liquid or gaseous in nature, or a mixture of both, and flows through microscale channels, pumps, valves, and filters.
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This "Thought Leader' article from Prof Luis M. Liz-Marzan discusses a novel and efficient method to coat CTAB-capped gold nanoparticles, opening up new avenues toward the fabrication of miniaturized sensing devices.
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AFM-IR, a new infrared spectromicroscope coupling an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to a tunable laser, allows researchers to derive chemical information on a scale not previously possible.
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