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Rapid etching X-rayed: Physicists unveil processes during fast chemical dissolution

A breakthrough in the study of chemical reactions during etching and coating of materials was achieved by a research group headed by Kiel physicist, Professor Olaf Magnussen. The team from the Christian-Albrechts-Universitat ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

A miniature synchrotron for your home lab

In 2004 Lyncean Technologies announced the construction of the Compact Light Source (CLS), a miniature synchrotron which uses inverse Compton scattering to produce high-intensity, tunable, near-monochromatic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Molecular spectroscopy tracks living mammalian cells in real time as they differentiate

Knowing how a living cell works means knowing how the chemistry inside the cell changes as the functions of the cell change. Protein phosphorylation, for example, controls everything from cell proliferation ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

X-rays create a window on glass formation: First ever visualization of how powder becomes molten glass

Scientists have for the first time visualised the transformation of powder mixtures into molten glass. A better understanding of this process will make it possible to produce high quality glass at lower temperatures, ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Image or mirror image? Chiral recognition by femtosecond laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not always easy to distinguish between images and mirror images of molecules, but this knowledge is important when one image of a molecule is a drug and the mirror image is toxic. One ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Crystal structure of archael chromatin clarified in new study

Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan, have clarified for the first time how chromatin in archaea, one of the three evolutionary branches of organisms in nature, binds to DNA. The results offer valuable ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify structure of key control element behind protein misfolding that can lead to disease

The gold standard for nanotechnology is nature's own proteins. These biomolecular nanomachines – macromolecules forged from peptide chains of amino acids - are able to fold themselves into a dazzling ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Spin-orbit sum rule to speed up X-ray scattering research

A new theory developed by Prof Gerrit van der Laan, from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Diamond Light Source, and published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, provid ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transparent iron? For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent

At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray light. At the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists X-ray key enzyme of common pathogen crystallized in living cells

An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness in a living cell and investigated it with the world’s strongest X-ray laser. This new ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clearing a potential road block to bisabolane: Key enzyme structure identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent discovery that bisabolane, a member of the terpene class of chemical compounds used in fragrances and flavorings, holds high promise as a biosynthetic alternative to D2 diesel fuel ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Demonstration of ultra-high speed piezoelectric thin film with nanodomain structure

The Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the National Institute for Materials Science, and Kyoto University confirmed for the first time in the world that it is possible to achieve ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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