News tagged with chemical absorption

Revealing the secrets of chemical bath deposition

X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy is well known as a versatile and powerful technique for examining the microstructure of everything from crystalline solids to amorphous materials, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

LiXEdrom: Innovative measuring chamber for X-ray study of liquid jets

X-rays are the medium of choice for many scientific studies. When you shine them on a sample, they literally shed light on the material's structure, providing loads of information about it. Unfortunately, this mostly applies ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dancing in the dark: scientists shed new light on protein-salt interactions

To study nanostructures in real environments, Berkeley Lab scientists have combined theoretical and experimental approaches to glimpse into a protein’s interaction with simple salts in water. Enabled by x-ray absorption ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electric control of aligned spins improves computer memory

Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB, Germany) and the French research facility CNRS, south of Paris, are using electric fields to manipulate the property of electrons known as "spin" to store data permanently. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Acidic clouds nourish world's oceans

Scientists at the University of Leeds have proved that acid in the atmosphere breaks down large particles of iron found in dust into small and extremely soluble iron nanoparticles, which are more readily used by plankton.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new method to cleaner and more efficient CO2 capture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Separating carbon dioxide from its polluting source, such as the flue gas from a coal-fired power plant, may soon become cleaner and more efficient.

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 61