News tagged with copper materials

Copper Nanowires Enable Bendable Displays, Solar Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Duke University chemists has perfected a simple way to make tiny copper nanowires in quantity. The cheap conductors are small enough to be transparent, making them ideal for thin-film ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Magnet Lab to Investigate Promising Superconductor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has received $1.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to understand and enhance a new form of superconducting ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework

(PhysOrg.com) -- The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A NIST research ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Copper can help in the battle against influenza A H1N1, scientist says

A leading microbiologist from the University of Southampton has told a conference that his research has found copper is effective in inhibiting the influenza A H1N1 virus.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Hydrogen protects nuclear fuel in final storage

By midsummer it will be announced where Sweden's spent nuclear fuel will be permanently stored. Ahead of the decision a debate is underway regarding how safe the method for final storage is, primarily in terms of the three ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Red-hot research could lead to new materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent experiments to create a fast-reacting explosive by concocting it at the nanoscopic level could result in more spectacular firework displays. But more impressive to the Missouri University ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Keeping the heat down

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic products are having to accommodate more and more components, all of which generate heat. Too much heat could put laptops and other devices out of action, so manufacturers equip ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 135 feature

Putting the Pressure on Iron-Based Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditionally, magnetism and superconductivity don't mix. For more than 20 years, the only known superconductors that worked at so-called "high" temperatures (above 30 K, or about -406 degrees ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Superconductivity: the new high critical temperature superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) by a team led by professor Francesc Illas of the University of Barcelona's Department of Physical Chemistry and di ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Secrets behind high temperature superconductors revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have found evidence that magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity.

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 29

Nano-twinned copper: Chinese-Danish scientists develop super strong nanometals

Research shows that it is possible to produce copper about 4 times stronger than commercial material - and doing so while also having a ductile material. As the thermal and electrical conductivity are also good, the manufacturing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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