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The white cells in the shrimp tail. Photo: Ben Gurion University

The shrimp redefines the laws of optics

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The shrimp has a particularly bright white color on its back and limbs that are intended to attract fish, which it 'cleanses' of pests it feeds on. An in-depth examination of the white substance using special electron microscopes revealed that the substance consists of an incredibly thin layer of very dense nanospheres (spheres of very tiny diameter)
Namib desert beetle. Photo: Igor Karamlev, Paxel

Removes insects

Development of water collection and transport systems based on the characteristics of the desert beetle and the female beetle
Schematic description of rod-shaped photoactive virus stacks glued together following the reaction with the dye (upper right corner)

Dyes and viruses together create an innovative material

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batteries. Photo: Oleksiy Mark/Shutterstock

They made you a battery / Catherine Burzak

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A razor inspired by the salamander. Figure 1. Courtesy of the Technion

How the frog and the salamander helped the Technion researchers significantly improve the shaving process

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A girl with CF is assisted by respiratory systems. From Wikipedia

Foam restores breath / Kathryn Harmon

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Organic topological insulators capable of transmitting information at the speed of light and which consist of a thin molecular layer (on the left) that resembles a sort of chicken coop fence wire while conducting electricity along the right edge of this layer (the blue line) - when the electrons can also carry information in the form of "down" or "up" spin ". Image courtesy: Feng Liu and Zhengfei Wang, University of Utah.

Engineers demonstrate the capability of superfast materials

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Researchers discovered that in the material TbFeO3 there is a magnetic field in which the change in the spin direction along a certain line of the atoms occurs suddenly. In the lower picture, a magnetic complex is depicted, the strength of which is obtained due to the large amount of complexes with the same direction. The top image depicts complexes that appear in more ordinary materials, where the spin rotates at a slower rate from up to down.

Revealing the properties of a magneto-electric material

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Surface exploration. Illustration: KRUSS company

For the first time ever, a magnetic soap was developed

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Materials that compose themselves. Image: NYU

Self-replication for the development of innovative materials

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A polymer that repairs itself with the help of light

Self-healing polymeric material

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Prof. Danny Shechtman. Photo: Technion

Prof. Dan Shechtman's discovery of quasi-crystals has implications for chemistry, physics, materials engineering and even art

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This image shows clusters of the type MnxCl2x+1 The purple and green represent manganese and chlorine respectively. Photo courtesy of Doctor Puru Jena/VCU and Doctor Anil Kandalam/McNeese State University

Superhalogens: a new family of magnetic materials

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Polymers with structural memory. Photo: Syracuse University

Polymers with structural memory

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Engineered material or metamaterial. From Wikipedia

Electromagnetic General Relativity: Traveling with Metamaterials to Space

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Solar cells, from Wikipedia

Incorporation of unsuitable elements for the development of solar cells

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Dr. Alex Lugovskoy and the Planetary Grinder (Credit: Public Relations - Ariel University Center)

Improving the capabilities of sunscreen through the modern incarnation of the mortar and pestle technology

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Dr. Eran Buchbinder. Cracks

breaking point

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Comparison of a normal ceramic material (on the left) and a material treated with a method developed at the University of North Carolina

Electric fields to improve the production process of ceramic materials

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Professor Lin Lu. Photo: Robin Block of the Chemical Engineering Department at Princeton

Plastic solar panels

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Pulling a thin thread of material (above) out of the solution (below), the polymer filaments, becoming a tangled mass, align. Illustration courtesy of Gang Chen

Polymers that turn from insulators to conductors

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Atoms that mimic the behavior of other atoms. Image: University of Pennsylvania

Superatoms mimic the behavior of elements

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New durable blue pigment

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New fireproof coatings

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Self-repairing surfaces

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