News tagged with hard x ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Water-splitting Photocatalyst Brought to Light

(PhysOrg.com) -- To produce "green" fuels, some scientists are looking for a little help from above. Sunlight is the key ingredient in photocatalytic water splitting, a process that breaks down water into ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast




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Berkeley lab scientists unveil an X-ray technique called HARPES

The expression “beauty’s only skin-deep” has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface. However, for many of the materials in today’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Catching electrons in the act: Science on the attosecond scale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how to create artificial photosynthesis, or tough, flexible high-temperature superconductors, or better solar cells, or a myriad other advances, will only be possible when we ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

University of Pennsylvania engineers reveal what makes diamonds slippery at the nanoscale

They call diamonds "ice," and not just because they sparkle. Engineers and physicists have long studied diamond because even though the material is as hard as an ice ball to the head, diamond slips and slides with remarkably ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Evidence Suggests a Possible New Phase of Ice

Researchers at the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) announced that they have obtained spectroscopic evidence suggesting that a possible new phase of ice may exist at temperatures between ...

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created Apr 18, 2005 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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