Scientists develop paint that changes colour with pressure
Polish researchers have developed luminescent nanomaterials that change the colour of emitted light with local pressure. Thanks to this, it will be possible to remotely and continuously monitor the distribution of stresses in structures and diagnose whether anything in them is starting to fail.
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Unravelling the hidden growth of mineral dendrites
An international research team involving scientists from the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Physics has described the process of growing three-dimensional manganese dendrites.
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Quantum proton billiards
The quantum nature of interactions between elementary particles allows drawing non-trivial conclusions even from processes as simple as elastic scattering. The ATLAS experiment at the LHC accelerator reports the measurement of fundamental properties of strong interactions between protons at ultra-high energies.
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Light-driven electrolysis
A team initiated by a researcher from the Military University of Technology has obtained very good efficiency of photoelectrocatalytic water splitting. The materials she developed can be used in the production of hydrogen from water under the influence of light. This is a promising alternative to the currently used methods of obtaining this energy carrier, the university reports.
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Gdańsk chemists publish previously ‘unknown responses’ to effect of nanoparticles on cells
Scientists from the University of Gdańsk have published a meta-analysis of research on the effect of nanoparticles on the cells of various organisms in the prestigious journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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Scientists find intriguing correlation between earthquakes and cosmic radiation
There is a clear statistical correlation between global seismic activity and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation recorded at the surface of our planet, says the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Polish researchers contribute to work on quantum Internet
Light can transfer quantum information up to 50 times faster thanks to a time lens used by physicists from the University of Warsaw in a converter that changes the properties of photons. In the near future, this technology may contribute to building super-fast connections of the quantum Internet, the university reports.
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Hypercomplex fractals after hours, or how engineer rests
Quaternions, octonions or sedenions are hypercomplex numbers, i.e. 'extensions of complex numbers to multidimensional spaces'. For some researcher,s dealing with fractal sets on their basis may be an escape from everyday laboratory work. Professor Andrzej Katunin talks to PAP - Science in Poland about the history of the search for hypercomplex fractals.
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Szczecin students win prestigious USA competition with concrete bowling ball design
A concrete bowling ball designed by students of the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin won a prestigious competition during the convention of the American Concrete Institute. The team from Szczecin defeated competitors from all over the world.
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Researchers at Military University of Technology create tunable metamaterials
Researchers at the Military University of Technology are developing tunable hybrid metamaterials that open up the possibility of designing active microcircuits with the ability to switch, modulate, slow down and accelerate terahertz waves. They can be a platform for building multifunctional photonic devices such as biochemical sensors, absorbers, filters, non-linear switches whose properties can be actively modulated.
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