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Fluorographene: The Teflon alternative and more

So you won a Nobel Prize for graphene; what do you do for an encore? Make something really useful out of it. Andre Geim at the University of Manchester, along with his colleague Kostya Novoselov put graphene on the (scientific) map around 2004. Their 2010 Nobel Prize put graphene into the public eye and made [...]
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Nanobubbles are really slick

One thing nanotechnology can do, besides create new materials, is use some ‘old’ things in new ways. Take, for example, bubbles. Some bubbles are trapped air. Air repels water, or more specifically air and water don’t mix (immediately) so bubbles are formed. Thinking like a nanotechnologist: What if there were nano-sized bubbles trapped in a [...]
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