News tagged with critical material
Looking through the glass transition on an ultrafast timescale
(Phys.org) -- When chemists look at a drinking glass filled with water and a few ice cubes, it's not clear to them whether the glass is more like the water or the ice.
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Berkeley Lab seeks to help US assert scientific leadership in critical materials
A few short decades ago, few could have imagined that the world would be seriously concerned over something called dysprosium. Also known as number 66 on the periodic table, dysprosium was once just another element for chemistry ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Students coax yeast cells to add vitamins to bread
Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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A Tiny Cage of Gold Responds to Light, Opening to Empty Its Contents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Smart drug delivery system -- Gold nanocage covered with polymer (w/ Video)
In campy old movies, Lucretia Borgia swans around emptying powder from her ring into wine glasses carelessly left unattended. The poison ring is usually a confection of gold filigree holding a cabochon or ...
Nov 01, 2009 |
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Mechanical stress leads to self-sensing in solid polymers (w/Video)
Parachute cords, climbing ropes, and smart coatings for bridges that change color when overstressed are several possible uses for force-sensitive polymers being developed by researchers at the University of ...
May 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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