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World’s First Hybrid Betavoltaic Cell Promises Decades of Power Without Charging
DGIST scientists created the first practical next-gen betavoltaic cell using carbon-14 and perovskite. Scientists have ...
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Photonic crystals articles from across Nature Portfolio
Photonic crystals are periodic optical structures that can control the flow of light. Multiple reflections from surfaces separated by a distance similar to the wavelength prevent an optical beam ...
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Crystal Structures, Polymerization, and Thermochromic Phase Changes in Urethane-Substituted Diacetylenes Crystals with Varying Alkyl Chain Lengths
A series of urethane-substituted diacetylene monomers (DA-mUPh) with different alkyl chain length (m = 4, 5, and 6) in side-chain substituents of (CH2)mOCONHC6H5 was synthesized. X-ray structural ...
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Design of Liquid Crystalline Block Molecules with Nonconventional Mesophase Morphologies: Calamitic Bolaamphiphiles with Lateral Alkyl Chains | Journal of ... - ACS Publications
Novel bolaamphiphiles, consisting of a biphenyl rigid core, polar 2,3-dihydroxypropoxy groups at each terminal end, and an additional long alkyl chain in a lateral position have been synthesized. The ...