News tagged with equilibrium

Controlling silicon evaporation allows scientists to boost graphene quality

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have for the first time provided details of their "confinement controlled sublimation" technique for growing high-quality layers of epitaxial graphene on ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Proteins, Soft Tissue from 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur Add Weight to Theory that Molecules Preserve Over Time

(PhysOrg.com) -- A North Carolina State University paleontologist has more evidence that soft tissues and original proteins can be preserved over time - even in fossilized remains - in the form of new protein ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 2

Startling thermal energy behavior revealed by neutron scattering

(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery by researchers working at the Spallation Neutron Source upends long held assumptions about the microscopic behavior of materials in an equilibrium condition. The findings could ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Structural origin of 'hidden state' in manganite thin film revealed by picosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction

Photo-induced phase transition (PIPT) has caused great excitement in materials science because ultra-fast alteration of the magnetic, dielectric, structural and optical properties of materials can be brought ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Exotic discovery made in soft polymer

Professor Frank S. Bates and his research team at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis have discovered an unusual type of soft material that was conceived of over 50 years ago, but has never before been ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Slow road to stability for emulsions

By studying the behavior of tiny particles at an interface between oil and water, researchers at Harvard have discovered that stabilized emulsions may take longer to reach equilibrium than previously thought.

Physics / Soft Matter

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Turning the heat on organizing energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional wisdom suggests that when exposing a crystal to heat, the thermal energy within the crystal would spread uniformly across the lattice.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Flying snakes, caught on tape (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- New video analysis and mathematical modeling by engineers at Virginia Tech reveals how certain types of snakes can "fly" by flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Species accumulate on Earth at slower rates than in the past: study

Computational biologists at the University of Pennsylvania say that species are still accumulating on Earth but at a slower rate than in the past.

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists create highly ordered artificial spin ice using nanotechnology

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has succeeded in creating artificial spin ice in a state of thermal equilibrium for the first time, allowing them to examine the precise configuration ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Engineer Discovers Why Particles Like Flour Disperse on Liquids

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even if you are not a cook, you might have wondered why a pinch of flour (or any small particles) thrown into a bowl of water will disperse in a dramatic fashion, radiating outward as if it ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 2

How to build doughnuts with Lego blocks

Scientists have uncovered how nature minimises energy costs in rings of liquids with an internal nanostructure made of two chemically discordant polymers joined with strong bonds, or di-blocks, deposited on ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Radar gun catches predator shredding turbulence in fusion plasma

Recent experiments carried out at the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego have allowed scientists to observe how fusion plasmas spontaneously turn off the plasma turbulence responsible for most of the heat loss in ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Uranium adsorption in sediments varies with respect to grain size

Using experimental and modeling resources at EMSL, scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined the equilibrium and kinetic properties of uranium(VI) adsorption to subsurface grains, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Submarine springs offer preview of ocean acidification effects on coral reefs

Observations at submarine springs found along the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are giving scientists a preview of the possible fate of coral reef ecosystems in response to ocean acidification.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Equilibrium

Equilibrium (⇌) is the condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced. The word may refer to:

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