News tagged with melting point
Engineers 'cook' promising new heat-harvesting nanomaterials in microwave oven
(PhysOrg.com) -- Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes, from driving a car to flying an aircraft or operating a power plant. Engineering researchers at Rensselaer ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Scientists learn startling new truth about sugar
Flying in the face of years of scientific belief, University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated that sugar doesn't melt, it decomposes.
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Royal College of Art student make a 3D printer that focuses the light of the sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- 3D printing has been around for a few years. If you hooked it up to a solar panel you could make it work with the sun, but still would not be as cool as doing it the way that Markus Kayser, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Tracking conflict minerals in Congo
Eastern Congo's hillsides are rich in an element that most people have never heard of, a metal that is inside most of the mobile phones, laptops, and other electronics that we use every day.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Building a smaller, lighter future: Understanding polymer behaviors below one nanometer
Knowing how to build nanosized assemblies of polymers (long molecular chains) holds the key to improving a broad range of industrial processes, from the production of nanofibers, filters, and new materials to the manufacture ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Room Temperature Liquid Porphyrins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins have received a great deal of attention in the scientific community owing to their useful application in a wide variety of areas, such as the treatment of cancer and systems that mimic photosynthesis. ...
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Perfectly proportioned: Working to improve dry compaction and sintering
(PhysOrg.com) -- The manufacture of parts by compaction and sintering involves filling a die with metal powder. Research scientists have simulated this process for the first time to achieve an evenly distributed ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Scientists use low-gravity space station lab to study crystal growth
A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Equipment recently ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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