The team from Harvard's Wyss Institute have published their results in the journal Nature Materials.
The material could be used to detect drugs in the body or improve airport security, according to new research published in the Nature Materials journal.
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Both the VML and Speedway Landfill produced methane gas, but the VML produced a greater quantity of methane gas because of the nature of the materials deposited.
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At the heart of the process is the formation of crystals, an ability endowed to some materials by nature.
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For me, starting with the materials is nature.
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With the rise of biotechnology and other advances, many patented technologies are based on biological or other materials that are by nature replicable, making illicit copying as tempting as it is easy.
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Nanometer-size materials occur all around us in nature, but it was only 20 years ago, thanks to IBM's introduction of the scanning tunneling microscope, that scientists began to observe and manipulate materials at the atomic level.
Those approaches are mostly based on so-called metamaterials, man-made materials with properties that do not occur in nature.
The new idea in Nature Communications uses small "islands" of energy-storing materials dotted on a stretchy polymer.
For example, new vaccines are being developed with biological materials that, like seeds, are designed by nature to duplicate themselves.
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The Cornell Center for Materials Research assembles atoms in ways never seen in nature for applications ranging from computer memory to replacement body parts.
In this particular scenario, MasterCard would not take action regarding the use of its cards and systems for the sale of lawful materials that seek to explore erotica content of this nature.
"Beyond that, the same principles that nature uses to make enamel might also be applied to create novel synthetic materials, " Professor Fincham says.
The research, which was completed in conjunction with scientists from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology ( Empa) is published in the journal Nature.
He is wary of materials that linger longer in the body and fail to age with what nature provided.
You begin to think like nature, in terms of building blocks that are fashioned into what I call sustainable materials platforms that can be used flexibly by many different products, and even by different companies.
It added that it was unable to disclose the findings of Macfarlanes' report "due to exposure to unacceptable legal risks that exist (primarily in Indonesia) as a result of the undisclosed provenance of the materials which formed the basis of the investigation, together with the unsubstantiated nature of the allegations".
There, they experiment with raw materials like resin and metal, pushing these substances into shapes that seem to defy nature.
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These materials are for use in the third grade in two subject areas: Person, Culture and Nature and Language and Communication (Mother Tongue).
Although the nature of the optic gunk remains unknown, project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory suspect volatile materials coming from the spacecraft after it departed Earth in February 1999.
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