News tagged with dipole moment

Exotic new matter expected in ultracold atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicist finds colder isn't always slower as electron emissions increase at temps to -452 F

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear physicist Hans-Otto Meyer's work progressed on testing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Physicists find charge separation in a molecule consisting of two identical atoms

Physicists from the University of Stuttgart show the first experimental proof of a molecule consisting of two identical atoms that exhibits a permanent electric dipole moment. This observation contradicts ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Opening the Door for CO2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, factory smokestacks that produced nothing but carbon dioxide and water vapor were considered exemplary. Now CO2 has become notorious as a greenhouse gas, and the danger of climate change has ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Researchers seeking the fourth property of electrons

Do electrons have a fourth property in addition to mass, charge and spin, as popular physics theories such as supersymmetry predict? Researchers from Germany, the Czech Republic and the USA want to find the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (38) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Effects of atomic-scale roughness on adhesion between diamond surfaces

CNST Project Leader Rachel Cannara and collaborators from the United States Naval Academy (USNA) and the University of Pennsylvania have shown that atomic-scale surface roughness has a strong influence on adhesion for diamond, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel tailor-made nanoferroelectric from building blocks

A research group at the Japan's National Institute for Materials Science have successfully developed a novel nanoferroelectric by a solution-based bottom-up nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0