News tagged with high conductivity

Scientists make nontoxic, bendable nanosheets

(Phys.org) -- Cornell materials scientists have developed an inexpensive, environmentally friendly way of synthesizing oxide crystal sheets, just nanometers thick, which have useful properties for electronics ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rare earth metals: Another challenge for the green economy?

If you follow the clean energy dialogue, then you may have encountered discussions about the role of rare earth metals at some point in the last year or two. If not, read on, because rare earths should not ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures

Using computer simulations, a Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Team develops highly efficient method for creating flexible, transparent electrodes

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Helium raises resolution of whole cell imaging

The ability to obtain an accurate three-dimensional image of an intact cell is critical for unraveling the mysteries of cellular structure and function. However, for many years, tiny structures buried deep inside cells have ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Neutron analysis explains dynamics behind best thermoelectric materials

Neutron analysis of the atomic dynamics behind thermal conductivity is helping scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a deeper understanding of how thermoelectric materials ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Defect in graphene may present bouquet of possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- A class of decorative, flower-like defects in the nanomaterial graphene could have potentially important effects on the material's already unique electrical and mechanical properties, according ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists demonstrate a high-efficiency ceramic laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the Optical Sciences Division at the Naval Research Laboratory, report a successful demonstration of a novel high-efficiency ceramic laser that is both, light-weight and compact ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New superconductor research may solve key problem in physics

Binghamton University physicist Michael Lawler and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could lead to advances in superconductors. Their findings will be published this week in the prestigious British journal Nature.

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mismatched alloys are a good match for thermoelectics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the supercomputers at NERSC, Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrated that the semiconductors known as highly mismatched alloys (HMAs) hold great promise for the future development of high ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Magnetism Governs Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though a year has passed since the discovery of a new family of high-temperature superconductors, a viable explanation for the iron-based materials’ unusual talent remains elusive. But a team ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists discover ground-breaking material: Graphane

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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