News tagged with journal of physical chemistry c
Physicists turn liquid into solid using an electric field
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have predicted that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Exciting atoms on the move: Fine-tuned laser light activates oxygen atoms to escape the surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to accelerate and remove oxygen atoms from thin films of calcium oxide has been discovered by a team of scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University College ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Rare form of silver observed during routine calibration
What started out as an ordinary instrument calibration task using silver turned into research gold for scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Contradicting nearly 40 years of measurement history, ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Gold nanoparticles create visible-light catalysis in nanowires
(PhysOrg.com) -- A scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory has created visible-light catalysis, using silver chloride nanowires decorated with gold nanoparticles, that may decompose organic molecules ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Hunting for new zeolites
In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to computations ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Long-sought way to make 'nano-raspberries' may fight foggy windows, eyeglasses
In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass a permanent ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 20, 2009 |
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