News tagged with layer
Nanotechnologists reveal the frictional characteristics of atomically thin sheets (w/ Video)
A team of nanotechnology researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University has used friction force microscopy to determine the nanoscale frictional characteristics of four atomically-thin ...
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Applied Materials Introduces Critical Via Liner Technology for 3D Chip Packaging
Applied Materials, Inc. today added to its extensive line of 3D chip packaging solutions with the launch of its Applied Producer InVia dielectric deposition system. Using a unique CVD process, the InVia system ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Europa on Earth
Cracks in the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa contain sulfur-rich material. An expedition to a sulfur spring in the Arctic could help solve some mysteries about Europa - including its potential for life.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Incorporating biofunctionality into nanomaterials for medical, health devices
A team led by researchers from North Carolina State University has published a paper that describes the use of a technique called atomic layer deposition to incorporate "biological functionality" into complex ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Producing graphene layers using crystallization
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since it's relatively recent discovery, graphene has generated a great deal of interest. Graphene is extracted from graphite in many cases, and consists of a sheet of carbon atoms bound together in a ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Layers in a Mars Crater Record a History of Changes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Near the center of a Martian crater about the size of Connecticut, hundreds of exposed rock layers form a mound as tall as the Rockies and reveal a record of major environmental changes on ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Smart Coating Opens Door To Safer Hip, Knee and Dental Implants
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a "smart coating" that helps surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection.
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Early humans caused extinction of Australia's giant animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- The mass extinction of Australia's giant animals, such as huge kangaroos and rhinoceros-sized wombats, might have been more rapid than previously thought, according to new research from the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Stacking the deck: Single photons observed at seemingly faster-than-light speeds
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, can speed up photons (particles of light) ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Ozone hole healing could cause further climate warming
The hole in the ozone layer is now steadily closing, but its repair could actually increase warming in the southern hemisphere, according to scientists at the University of Leeds.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Water Planets
Of the roughly 420 extra-solar planets now known, about a dozen are in the newly named category of "super-earths," planets whose masses are in between of two and about fifteen earth-masses.
Jan 22, 2010 |
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New evidence links humans to megafauna demise
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new scientific paper co-authored by a University of Adelaide researcher reports strong evidence that humans, not climate change, caused the demise of Australia's megafauna -- giant marsupials, ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Patch for flaw in key Internet protocol
(PhysOrg.com) -- A flaw was found in November in a key Internet protocol that encrypts most sensitive online transactions and communications, including credit card and banking transactions. A patch has now ...
Jan 15, 2010 |
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Solar System Shield
Water vapor in planet-forming disks may block ultraviolet radiation from destroying water and other important molecules for life, according to new calculations.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Self-assembling solar panels a step closer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists Robert J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs of the University of Minnesota have developed a way to make tiny solar cells self-assemble.
Jan 14, 2010 |
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