News tagged with air bubbles

Clay-armored bubbles may have formed first protocells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 167 | with audio podcast

Bubbles help break energy storage record for lithium-air batteries

Resembling broken eggshells, graphene structures built around bubbles produced a lithium-air battery with the highest energy capacity to date, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New technology for recovering valuable minerals from waste rock

Researchers report discovery of a completely new technology for more efficiently separating gold, silver, copper, and other valuable materials from rock and ore. Their report on the process, which uses nanoparticles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists Glimpse Nanobubbles on Super Non-Stick Surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface could lead to new super-slick materials with applications in energy, medicine, and more.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Bioreactor redesign dramatically improves yield

Scientists explain why a microalgae bioreactor redesign provides an order-of-magnitude improvement over conventional cultivation methods.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pacific Northwest trees struggle for water while standing in it

Contrary to expectations, researchers have discovered that the conifers of the Pacific Northwest, some of the tallest trees in the world, face their greatest water stress during the region's eternally wet ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Made easy with light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lightweight, sturdy, and non-corrosive: fiber-reinforced thermoplastics are an ideal material for making boats and cars, and for aerospace engineering. But up to now, processing the raw materials ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1