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Smashing new look at nanoribbons: Researchers unzip nanotubes by shooting them at 15,000 mph
Carbon nanotubes unzipped into graphene nanoribbons by a chemical process invented at Rice University are finding use in all kinds of projects but Rice scientists have now found a chemical free way to unzip them ... - Read MoreBringing the Bling to Antibacterials
Released 7 1 2014 11 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom American Institute of Physics AIP more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Applied Physics LettersJul 2 2014 WASHINGTON D ... - Read MoreFormation of organic thin-film transistors through room-temperature printing
Japanese researchers have established a process for forming organic thin film transistors TFTs conducting the entire printing process at room temperature under ambient atmospheric conditions Printed electronics the field in which electronic devices are produced ... - Read MorePacking hundreds of sensors into a single optical fiber for use in harsh environments
By fusing together the concepts of active fiber sensors and high temperature fiber sensors a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has created an all optical high temperature sensor for gas flow measurements ... - Read MoreWater-cleanup catalysts tackle biomass upgrading
Rice University chemical engineer Michael Wong has spent a decade amassing evidence that palladium gold nanoparticles are excellent catalysts for cleaning polluted water but even he was surprised at how well the particles converted biodiesel ... - Read MoreDiamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry
You wouldn't think that mechanical force the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards could process nanoparticles more subtly than the most ... - Read MoreControlling body movement with light: Neuroscientists inhibit muscle contractions by shining light on spinal cord neurons
For the first time MIT neuroscientists have shown they can control muscle movement by applying optogenetics a technique that allows scientists to control neurons' electrical impulses with light to the spinal cords of animals that ... - Read MoreNew use for touchless technology in the operating theatre
Pioneering work using touchless technology for vascular surgery is now being extended to neurosurgery Dr Mark Rouncefield and Dr Gerardo Gonzalez from the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University were part of a ... - Read MoreLong-range tunneling of quantum particles
One of the most remarkable consequences of the rules in quantum mechanics is the capability of a quantum particle to penetrate through a potential barrier even though its energy would not allow for the corresponding ... - Read MoreBreakthrough for information technology using Heusler materials: May lead to very high performance spintronic components
It is the breakthrough that physicists and chemists around the world have long anticipated and it will play a pivotal role in information technology in coming years Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz JGU have ... - Read MoreMost Popular Articles
Released 3 11 2013 5 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom National University of Singapore more news from this source Mar 11 2013 A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore NUS led by Professor ...
In the EU funded project MicroMilk European SMEs together with the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer IGB have developed a novel method for pasteurization of milk with microwaves The system preserves the valuable components ...
All chefs know that you have to break some eggs to make an omelet and that includes engineers at Iowa State University who are using high frequency sound waves to break down plant materials in ...
Released 10 11 2013 9 35 AM EDTEmbargo expired 10 13 2013 1 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom McMaster University more news from this source Oct 15 2013 Hamilton ON Oct 13 2013 Researchers at McMaster ...
A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming recorded during the past 50 years according to new research at ...
Geochemistry analysis conducted by the U S Naval Research Laboratory of fossil sediment injection structures off the New Zealand coast in February and March reveal no presence of modern day expulsions of methane gas a ...
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Technology using microwave heating may impact electronics manufacturing
no picEngineers at Oregon State University have successfully shown that a continuous flow reactor can produce high quality nanoparticles by using microwave assisted heating essentially the same forces that heat up leftover food with such efficiency ... - Read MoreCharging portable electronics in 10 minutes: New architecture for lithium-ion battery anodes far outperform the current standard
no picResearchers at the University of California Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three dimensional silicon decorated cone shaped carbon nanotube cluster architecture for lithium ion battery anodes that could enable charging of portable ... - Read MoreNew class of nanoparticle brings cheaper, lighter solar cells outdoors
no picThink those flat glassy solar panels on your neighbor's roof are the pinnacle of solar technology Think again Researchers in the University of Toronto's Edward S Rogers Sr Department of Electrical & amp Computer Engineering ... - Read MoreTargeting tumors using silver nanoparticles
no picScientists at UC Santa Barbara have designed a nanoparticle that has a couple of unique and important properties Spherical in shape and silver in composition it is encased in a shell coated with a peptide ... - Read MoreEvolution of a bimetallic nanocatalyst
no picAtomic scale snapshots of a bimetallic nanoparticle catalyst in action have provided insights that could help improve the industrial process by which fuels and chemicals are synthesized from natural gas coal or plant biomass A ... - Read MoreCrystallography
Liquid crystal as lubricantThanks to a new lubricant small gears can run with virtually no friction Made from liquid crystalline fluid these lubricants drastically reduce friction and wear Lubricants are used in motors axels ventilators and manufacturing machines ...
- Definitive evidence of how zeolites grow: Tracking crystal growth in real time
- Researchers grow liquid crystal 'flowers' that can be used as lenses
- Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source: Device is like a photonic crystal, but smaller and tunable
- Crystal Mysteries Spiral Deeper
- Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle
Polymer Chemistry
Cheap solar cells made from shrimp shellsResearchers at Queen Mary University of London QMUL have successfully created electricity generating solar cells with chemicals found the shells of shrimps and other crustaceans for the first time The materials chitin and chitosan found ...
- More light shed on on biomass breakdown
- New catalyst process uses light, not metal, for rapid polymerization
- Theory details how 'hot' monomers affect thin-film formation
- Of bio-hairpins and polymer-spaghetti: Spotlight on how entangled polymers flow and soften
- Continuous fabrication system for highly aligned polymer films provides method for tuning mechanical and thermal properties in bulk polymers
Nuclear Chemistry
Clusters of aluminum metal atoms become superconductive at surprisingly high temperaturesA superconductor that works at room temperature was long thought impossible but scientists at USC may have discovered a family of materials that could make it reality A team led by Vitaly Kresin professor of ...
Chemical Kinetics
Step toward rational design of catalysts: Better catalysts, made-to-orderMost of our food medicine fuel plastics and synthetic fibers wouldn't exist without catalysts materials that open favorable pathways for chemical reactions to run forth And yet chemists don't fully understand how most catalysts work ...
- Better Catalysts, Made-to-Order
- The gold standard: Affordable catalyst for energy and environmental applications
- A green transformation for pharmaceuticals
- A new piece in the high-temperature superconductivity puzzle: 'Dressing' in superconductors
- Switching clicks in polymers: Thermoset materials acquire thermoplastic properties with the aid of triazolinediones
Chemical Thermodynamics
Seeing through sparklers: What happens to heat-treated diamondsDiamonds come in all colours with price tags to match ice white blue and pink attract high prices and stones with brown hues the least But now that brown diamonds can be heat treated to ...
- How iron feels the heat
- Nanotubes self-organize and wiggle: Evolution of a nonequilibrium system demonstrates MEPP
- Hot showers, lower power bills with heat pump water heaters: How water heaters are installed impacts total home energy use
- Breakthrough in predictions of pressure-dependent combustion chemical reactions
- 'Smart windows' have potential to keep heat out and save energy
Physical Organic Chemistry
The simplest element: Turning hydrogen into 'graphene'New work from Carnegie's Ivan Naumov and Russell Hemley delves into the chemistry underlying some surprising recent observations about hydrogen and reveals remarkable parallels between hydrogen and graphene under extreme pressures Their work is the ...
Molecular Biology
Expert Available Re GFP Research, Genetically Modified Mosquitoes. @ConnCollege Chem Prof Marc Zimmer, Author Of "Illuminating Disease"Expert Pitch Released 20 Feb 2015 12 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom Connecticut College more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Marc Zimmer the Tempel Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut ...
Environmental Chemistry
Climate-warmed leaves change lake ecosystemsRising soil temperatures significantly affect autumn leaves and consequently the food web appearance and biochemical makeup of the lakes and ponds those leaves fall into a Dartmouth College led study finds The study is one ...
- First direct observation of carbon dioxide's increasing greenhouse effect at Earth's surface
- Lake Tahoe research provides new insights on global change
- Looking back into the past of oceans: Acidification trends, seasonal fluctuations
- Recycling of nutrients may be the key to saving Earth
- Scientists bring oxygen back to dead fjord
Chemical Physics
Spin laser: Rapid data transfer thanks to quantum physicsRUB engineers have developed a new concept for accelerating data transfer in server farms To this end the team at the Chair of Photonics and Terahertz Technology applies a quantum mechanical variable i e the ...
- Quantum many-body systems on the way back to equilibrium
- Interaction between light and sound in nanoscale waveguide
- Controlling car pollution at the quantum level
- Scientists set quantum speed limit
- Electroluminescent light sheets: Printable luminous particles enable cost-effective, large and curved luminous surfaces
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- Untangling DNA with a droplet of water, a pipet and a polymer
- Mystery of the reverse-wired eyeball solved
- Bringing clean energy a step closer
- The better to see you with: Prosthetic leg would keep an eye on path ahead
- Himalayan ice shows chemicals ban is working
- Climate-warmed leaves change lake ecosystems
- First direct observation of carbon dioxide's increasing greenhouse effect at Earth's surface
- Lake Tahoe research provides new insights on global change
- Lithium from the coal in China
- Superatomic Nickel core and unusual molecular reactivity
- In quest for better lithium-air batteries, chemists boost carbon's stability
- Building blocks of the future defy logic: New logic-defying mathematical model
- Combating bacteria via silver-dammar coating
- New x-ray microscope for nanoscale imaging
- Caging of molecules allows investigation of equilibrium thermodynamics
- Spin laser: Rapid data transfer thanks to quantum physics
- Physicists offer a solution to the puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe
- Clusters of aluminum metal atoms become superconductive at surprisingly high temperatures
- Simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions
- Graphene shows potential as novel anti-cancer therapeutic strategy
- Cherenkov Effect improves radiation therapy for patients with cancer
- New technology could make treatment of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper
- Bacteria in marine sponges harvest phosphorus for reef community
- Looking back into the past of oceans: Acidification trends, seasonal fluctuations
- Storks could become poisoned by pesticides during their migration to Africa
- New, useful feature of Moringa seeds revealed
- Renewable energy obtained from wastewater
- Building tailor-made DNA nanotubes step by step
- Crude oil production: Asphaltene analysis takes a giant step
- New acoustic insulation material that incorporates fibers from orange tree pruning
- Optical nanoantennas set the stage for a NEMS lab-on-a-chip revolution
- Using 'fuzzy logic' to optimize hybrid solar/battery systems
- Together, nanotechnology, genetic interference may tackle 'untreatable/ brain tumors
- Novel pretreatment could cut biofuel costs by 30 percent or more
- OMG Moment Affects GPAs
- Recycling of nutrients may be the key to saving Earth
- Scientists bring oxygen back to dead fjord
- Stretch and relax: Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium
- Simulating superconducting materials with ultracold atoms
- New catalyst to create chemical building blocks from biomass
- Fever alarm armband: A wearable, printable, temperature sensor
- Threat of ocean acidification to coastal communities in US
- Quantum many-body systems on the way back to equilibrium
- Frequency combs in molecular fingerprint region
- Availabililty of rare metals for manufacturing: Are we (in)dependent of rare metals?
- Magnetic nanoparticles could stop blood clot-caused strokes
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment, including kitchen utensils, contain valuable materials
- Getting a grip on exotic atomic nuclei
- Climate change influences distribution of organic pollutants in the Baltic Sea
- Draft report analyzes policy options for hydraulic fracturing in Michigan
- System to turn wastewater into fresh water developed
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