The 2004 Scientific American 50 researcher of the year continues to tweak matter at the edge of known physics to reveal strange and
potentially useful properties
Not exact matches
The arrangement of atoms in an alloy changes the chemical
properties of its constituent metals and makes it
potentially useful to catalyse reactions.
The conducting electrons at the interface form a two - dimensional electron gas (2DEG) which boasts exotic quantum
properties that make the system
potentially useful in electronics and photonics applications.
They take the form of cylindrical carbon molecules and have novel
properties that make them
potentially useful in a wide variety of applications in nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science.
Liverworts also contain many bioactive compounds, which exhibit a range of activity including anti-microbial and anti-retroviral
properties, and the greater the recognized species diversity the greater the pool of
potentially useful molecules.
If you are able to buy a
property under market value (usually because it needs substantial rehab work), once you do the rehab work (and I don't mean «you» personally — you'd actually need to have it done by a licensed contractor under the terms of a 203k loan), you
potentially get not only higher rents, but also the option to refinance the mortgage after the rehab is done (and once you've satisfied any owner - occupancy or seasoning requirements from the lender), which can be especially
useful if you want to purchase additional rental
properties (something sometimes referred to as the «BRRR method», for «Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance).