News tagged with metal organic
Ink with tin nanoparticles could print future circuit boards
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost all electronic devices contain printed circuit boards, which are patterned with an intricate copper design that guides electricity to make the devices functional. In a new study, researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Novel filter metal-organic framework material could cut natural gas refining costs
A new type of hybrid material developed at the University of California, Berkeley, could help oil and chemical companies save energy and money – and lower their environmental impacts – by eliminating ...
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Electron switch between molecules points way to new high-powered organic batteries
The development of new organic batteries -- lightweight energy storage devices that work without the need for toxic heavy metals -- has a brighter future now that chemists have discovered a new way to pass ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Putting the pedal to the metal: Lithium metal improves fuel cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Water splitting is a clean way to generate hydrogen, which is seen by many as the fuel of the future. Scientists from the Energy Technology Research Institute, AIST in Tsukuba, Japan now report ...
May 14, 2010 |
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Researchers identify mysterious life forms in the extreme deep sea (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A summer research expedition organized by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to the identification of gigantic amoebas at one of the deepest locations ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2011 |
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Layered footballs: First two-dimensional organic metal made of fullerenes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since their discovery in the mid 1980s, fullerenes have caused a sensation. The tiny hollow spheres made of 60 carbon atoms, constructed out of pentagons and hexagons like miniature soccer ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Mechanical devices stamped on plastic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microelectromechanical devices -- tiny machines with moving parts -- are everywhere these days: they monitor air pressure in car tires, register the gestures of video game players, and reflect ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Milestone: A methane-metal marriage
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona scientists have inserted metal atoms into methane gas molecules and obtained a detailed structure of the resulting molecule. The discovery could be a key step in making ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Engineers solve energy puzzle
University of Toronto materials science and engineering (MSE) researchers have demonstrated for the first time the key mechanism behind how energy levels align in a critical group of advanced materials. This discovery is ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 06, 2011 |
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Rock rafts could be 'cradle of life'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Floating rafts of volcanic pumice could have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth, scientists from Oxford University and the University of Western Australia have suggested.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis
A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Dutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have succeeded in making the first ever piece of chiral palladium metal. The findings, by a research team led by Gadi Rothenberg, professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable ...
Apr 23, 2009 |
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New organic catalyst should enhance drug research and development
A new "organocatalyst" developed at Oregon State University is now available for commercial use. Produced by an Albany, Ore., pharmaceutical company, it should make new drug development around the world less ...
May 11, 2011 |
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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
Feb 23, 2011 |
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'Seeding' the next generation of smart materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at CSIRO have developed a simple but effective technique for growing and adding value to an exciting new group of smart materials which could be used in areas such as optical sensing ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 18, 2011 |
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