News tagged with atomic scale
First X-ray laser's early success brings approval for next-phase facility
The U.S. Department of Energy has granted approval for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory -- home of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first hard X-ray laser -- to begin planning a second ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Seeing Moire in Graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that atomic scale moiré patterns, an interference pattern ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Shells, silicon & neighbourly atoms
What do shells, solar panels and DVDs have in common? At the atomic scale they are 'amorphous', that is -- unlike crystals -- they are built from irregular arrangements of atoms.
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Metallic Glass Yields Secrets Under Pressure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Metallic glasses are emerging as potentially useful materials at the frontier of materials science research. They combine the advantages and avoid many of the problems of normal metals and ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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In the World: Nanotech on the farm
Cassava is a tropical root vegetable and staple crop for millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. However, it's tricky to handle: Once the root is removed from the ground, it spoils within one to three days, ...
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Measuring the Speed of Noble 'Bubbles'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a layer of noble gas "bubbles," scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory devised a straightforward way to measure how fast molecules diffuse in supercooled liquids. Working ...
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Researchers Find New Way To Study How Enzymes Repair DNA Damage
Researchers at Ohio State University have found a new way to study how enzymes move as they repair DNA sun damage -- and that discovery could one day lead to new therapies for healing sunburned skin.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Golden ratio discovered in a quantum world
Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB, Germany), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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A (nano-) window that washes itself?
A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, detail ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories
(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Cement's basic molecular structure finally decoded
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles
Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 30, 2009 |
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New rotors could help develop nanoscale generators
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a molecular structure that could help create current-generating machines at the nanoscale.
May 27, 2009 |
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