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Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.
Chemistry World March 11, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Metals lose identity under pressure Two independent teams have demonstrated that metals can lose their high conductivity under pressure, proving that the standard models used to describe their behavior are inadequate.
Chemistry World June 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Rethinking redox chemistry Metal oxide redox chemistry may be due a big re-think following new research by US scientists. It seems that it is not solely electrons that are being shunted about. In many, possibly most, cases a proton also comes along for the ride.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore	Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface
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Technology Research News March 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Cheap solar power on deck Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have come up with a new type of solar cell that may be much less expensive to manufacture than today's solar cells and can be improved to be nearly as efficient.
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Chemistry World October 21, 2012 Nina Notman	Haber-Bosch power consumption slashed A new type of ruthenium catalyst could reduce the power consumption of ammonia production, claim Japanese scientists.
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Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Lead joins the aromatic ring club Scientists in Japan have successfully incorporated an atom of lead into an aromatic molecule - the heaviest metal so far to be 'aromatised'.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Light writes data in electrons Researchers developed a spin memory device that writes data as electron spins using lasers, stores the electrons in quantum dots, and reads spin information by applying a voltage to the quantum dots to generate photons.
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Chemistry World May 30, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	New superconductors open up the periodic table For two decades, the search for superconductors that worked at high temperatures was restricted to copper. Now a new family of high-temperature superconductors based on iron has been discovered.
Chemistry World February 19, 2013 Andy Extance	Insulator pile shows solar potential Stacks of insulating transition metal oxides could effectively convert sunlight into electricity. A team in Austria, has calculated that layering LaVO 3 on a SrTiO 3 base could also deliver advantages conventional semiconductors can't.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage	Spintronic Memristors Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently discovered fourth circuit element
Chemistry World April 11, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Phosphorus fragments trapped Researchers in the US and Germany have shown how a rare and highly reactive form of phosphorus can be captured and crystallised, making it stable even at room temperature.
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Chemistry World February 13, 2011 Simon Hadlington	First purely organic phosphor Scientists in the US have made a major advance in the development of novel light-emitting materials by designing the first purely organic phosphorescent compound.
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Chemistry World March 2010 Philip Ball	Column: The crucible Superatoms reinforce the notion that chemistry is more about electrons than elements, says the author
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Chemistry World May 2, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Solar panel slims down to a few atoms thick An international team of researchers has constructed an atom thin photovoltaic device with unusually high quantum efficiency -- a measure of the photons converted into charge carrying electrons -- of 30%.
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Chemistry World January 12, 2011 Philip Ball	Einstein in your engine Rajeev Ahuja of Uppsala University in Sweden and his coworkers have looked at how relativistic effects on electron energies in lead atoms affect the voltage of the lead-acid battery, the standard electrical power source in cars.
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Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley	Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information.
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