News tagged with copper surface

First evaluation of the Clean Water Act's effects on coastal waters reveals major successes

Levels of copper, cadmium, lead and other metals in Southern California's coastal waters have plummeted over the past four decades, according to new research from USC.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Cu-BTC proves redox capable, opens new doors for catalysis and gas storage

What holds the surface area of several football fields in the mass equivalent of a paper clip? The answer to this question has many names and performs duties ranging from catalysis to gas storage: the metal ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World's smallest four-wheel-drive is a billionth of a meter (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Reduced to the max: the emission-free, noiseless 4-wheel drive car, jointly developed by Empa researchers and their Dutch colleagues, represents lightweight construction at its most extreme. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Research: Graphene grows better on certain copper crystals

New observations could improve industrial production of high-quality graphene, hastening the era of graphene-based consumer electronics, thanks to University of Illinois engineers.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule

Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, a development that may potentially create a new class of devices that could be used ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Antibacterial stainless steel created

Materials scientists at the University of Birmingham have devised a way of making stainless steel surfaces resistant to bacteria in a project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council which culminated ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Pentagonal tiles pave the way towards organic electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research paves way for the nanoscale self-assembly of organic building blocks, a promising new route towards the next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Will copper keep us safe from the superbugs?

Three papers scheduled for publication in the January issue of the Journal of Hospital Infection, published by Elsevier, suggest that copper might have a role in the fight against healthcare-associated infections.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with 'chemical precision'

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces. An international team of researchers, headed by ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to modify future weather patterns.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2

Corrosion-resistant nanocoating for metals could replace toxic chromium

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles - particles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Paper electrified by copper particles

The Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles. When the size of particles is reduced to a nano-scale (one nanometre being one ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0