Building structures by mixing lego bricks of two different sizes is child's play. However, studying polymers endowed with an alternating nanostructure made of heterogeneous blocks is anything but straightforward.
Nanomaterials
Aug 5, 2013
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New research shows a physical characterisation of the interface of the body's proteins with water. Identifying the locations where it is easiest to remove water from the interface of target proteins could constitute a novel ...
Materials Science
Jul 30, 2013
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What do wound healing, cancer metastasis, and bacteria colonies have in common? They all involve the collective displacement of biological cells. New research sheds some new light on the physical mechanisms provoking the ...
General Physics
Jul 29, 2013
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Complicated statistical behaviour observed in complex systems such as early universe can often be understood if it is broken down into simpler ones. Two physicists, Petr Jizba (currently affiliated with the Czech Technical ...
General Physics
Jul 26, 2013
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Scientists have unearthed a new dynamic process induced by strong electric fields in thin liquid crystal cells.
Condensed Matter
Jan 24, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Theoretical physicists like to play with very unconventional toys. Manoel Manghi from Toulouse University in France and his colleagues have adopted a seemingly playful approach to examining what happens to a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 25, 2012
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