News tagged with hydrogen ions

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (49) | comments 48

Scientists image the sea monster of nuclear fusion: the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray imaging capability has taken pictures of a critical instability at the heart of Sandia's huge Z accelerator. The effort may help remove a major impediment in the worldwide, multidecade, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (33) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Salt Water System Could Generate Hydrogen

(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea of generating hydrogen from salt water has often been claimed to work effectively. However, the systems proposed so far generally require a much greater energy input than the energy ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (33) | comments 18 weblog

Turning sunlight into liquid fuels (Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, green plants have employed photosynthesis to capture energy from sunlight and convert it into electrochemical energy. A goal of scientists has been to develop an artificial ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 2

Proton-based transistor could let machines communicate with living things

Human devices, from light bulbs to iPods, send information using electrons. Human bodies and all other living things, on the other hand, send signals and perform work using ions or protons.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

H3+: The molecule that made the Universe

(Phys.org) -- In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, University of Arizona researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe - ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

A $1000 genome could be reached by 2013

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the journal Nature describes the new machine created by Jonathan Rothberg of Ion Torrent Systems which uses semiconductors to decode DNA and takes them one step c ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Scientists observe single ions moving through tiny carbon-nanotube channel

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a team of MIT chemical engineers has observed single ions marching through a tiny carbon-nanotube channel. Such channels could be used as extremely sensitive detectors ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Structure of hydrogen storage molecule solved, once orientation of nearby ions elucidated

(PhysOrg.com) -- For nearly a century, nobody knew how the little molecule that’s in the middle of many of today’s hydrogen storage and release concepts was organized. Thanks to an interdisciplinary ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Oceans reveal further impacts of climate change, says UAB expert

The increasing acidity of the world's oceans - and that acidity's growing threat to marine species - are definitive proof that the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing climate change is also negatively ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 12

Japan's Sony generates power from paper

Japanese electronics giant Sony on Thursday revealed technology that generates electricity from shredded paper.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

New Catalyst Paves the Path for Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Metallic molecules to nanotubes: Spread out!

(PhysOrg.com) -- A lab at Rice University has stepped forward with an efficient method to disperse nanotubes in a way that preserves their unique properties -- and adds more.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

(PhysOrg.com) -- New insight into how nature handles some fundamental processes is guiding researchers in the design of tailor-made proteins for applications such as artificial photosynthetic centers, long-range ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The promise of ion beam cancer therapy

For certain kinds of cancer, the most effective therapy does not use x-rays or gamma rays but beams of ions, the electrically charged cores of atoms, including hydrogen ions (protons) and heavier ions such ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0