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The powers of 10
How spider-inspired tools could revolutionize nanofiber handling
Discover how progress in nanotechnology aid scientists to understand and apply the concept of particle engineering, specifically in the field of pharmacology
Learn about “QED” a play about physicist Richard Feynman, to teach science and engineering to people through performance art
structure of buckminsterfullerene
The science behind fluorescent colors
Understand how researchers are creating wrinkled surfaces with precise sizes and controlled patterns for use in various structures
detailed illustrations of the top-down and bottom-up approaches for building structures at the micrometre scale nanoparticles: hydrogen peroxide structure of an inverted or reverse micelle
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Nanowires as seen by a field-emission microscope.
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The powers of 10
structure of buckminsterfullerene
detailed illustrations of the top-down and bottom-up approaches for building structures at the micrometre scale
nanoparticles: hydrogen peroxide
structure of an inverted or reverse micelle
Nanowires as seen by a field-emission microscope.
How spider-inspired tools could revolutionize nanofiber handling
Discover how progress in nanotechnology aid scientists to understand and apply the concept of particle engineering, specifically in the field of pharmacology
Learn about “QED” a play about physicist Richard Feynman, to teach science and engineering to people through performance art
The science behind fluorescent colors
Understand how researchers are creating wrinkled surfaces with precise sizes and controlled patterns for use in various structures
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