News tagged with colloidal suspension

Making complex fluids look simple

An international research team has successfully developed a widely applicable method for discovering the physical foundations of complex fluids for the first time. Researchers at the University of Vienna and ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Osmosis in colloidal suspensions

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is very difficult to overestimate the importance of colloidal suspensions. Besides being an integral part of our everyday life (food, cosmetics, drugs), they also serve as an excellent ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanodiamonds could be used in disease diagnosis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Taiwan have developed fluorescent nanodiamonds that may in the future be used in the diagnosis and treatment of human disease.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists super-cooled a liquid into glass in order to observe the slowing of particles. It's a material that still perplexes researchers despite thousands of years of household and industrial use.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Engineers develop method to disperse chemically modified graphene in organic solvents

A method for creating dispersed and chemically modified graphene sheets in a wide variety of organic solvents has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin engineering team led by Professor Rod Ruoff, opening the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0