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Glowing White: Solvent-free luminescent organic liquids for organic electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The future will be dominated by organic electronics, as opposed to current silicon-based technology. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, an international team of researchers has now introduced a new ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene quantum dots: The next big small thing

A Rice University laboratory has found a way to turn common carbon fiber into graphene quantum dots, tiny specks of matter with properties expected to prove useful in electronic, optical and biomedical applications.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing sound in a new light

The National Physical Laboratory Acoustics team has been investigating acoustic cavitation – the formation and implosion of micro cavities, or bubbles, in a liquid caused by the extreme pressure variations ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Novel nanocrystals with advanced optical properties developed for use as luminescent biomarkers

Upconversion emission materials are ideal for bioimaging due to its effectiveness as contrast agents for the detection of cancer cells, more so when the background emission of non-cancerous tissues can be minimised. These ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists observe 'campfire effect' in blinking nanorod semiconductors

When semiconductor nanorods are exposed to light, they blink in a seemingly random pattern. By clustering nanorods together, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have shown that their combined "on" time is increased ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists list top 10 new species

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glow-in-the-dark mushrooms, a batfish flat as a pancake that appears to hop in the water, Titanic-eating bacterium, and a T. rex leech with enormous teeth are among the new species from 2010 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Synthetic biology: German researchers develop novel kind of fluorescent protein

Since the 1990s a green fluorescent protein known as GFP has been used in research labs worldwide. Protein designers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen have now taken it a step further: They have managed to incorporate a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Optical imaging could create pathway for radiotracers, study finds

A study published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) reports on investigative research of a novel optical imaging technique called "Cerenkov luminescence imaging (CLI)." According to the authors, the te ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Don't Compare Bananas to Pears

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yellow leaves on banana plants give off a blue glow when viewed under UV light. This luminescence comes from decomposition products of chlorophyll, the substance that makes leaves green.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Berkeley Researchers Light Up White OLEDs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Light-emitting diodes, which employ semiconductors to produce artificial light, could reduce electricity consumption and lighten the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. However, moving this ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 7 | with audio podcast


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