News tagged with metal particles

Graphene's 'quantum leap' takes electronics a step closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Writing in the journal Nature Physics, the academics, who discovered the world's thinnest material at The University of Manchester in 2004, have revealed more about its electronic properties.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Particle-free silver ink prints small, high-performance electronics

University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists demonstrate quantum plasmons in atomic-scale nanoparticles

Addressing a half-century-old question, engineers at Stanford have conclusively determined how collective electron oscillations, called plasmons, behave in individual metal particles as small as just a few nanometers in diameter. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blocked holes can enhance rather than stop light going through

Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Research demonstrates method that allows inexpensive carbon materials to store hydrogen at room temperature

Hydrogen has long been considered a promising alternative to fossil fuels for powering cars, trucks and even homes. But one major obstacle has been finding lightweight, robust and inexpensive ways of storing the gas, whose ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Self-replication process holds promise for production of new materials

New York University scientists have developed artificial structures that can self-replicate, a process that has the potential to yield new types of materials. The work, conducted by researchers in NYU's Departments of Chemistry ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Metal particle generates new hope for H2 energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny metallic particles produced by University of Adelaide chemistry researchers are bringing new hope for the production of cheap, efficient and clean hydrogen energy.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Hydrogen-rich Material Promises Advances in Energy Transmission, Fuel Storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford University, have produced a hydrogen-rich alloy that could provide insight into ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 12

Discovery about behavior of building block of nature could lead to computer revolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 7

Scientists shed light on magnetic mystery of graphite

The physical property of magnetism has historically been associated with metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt; however, graphite – an organic mineral made up of stacks of individual carbon sheets – has baffled ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bees helping to monitor air quality at German airports

(PhysOrg.com) -- Air quality around eight airports in Germany is being monitored with the help of bees, whose honey is tested regularly for toxins.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers' quest for gold

For University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researchers studying the toxicity of gold nanoparticles - a minuscule material with potentially big biomedical applications - the road to a new medical advance may or may not be paved ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Air-quality researchers tackle health implications of ultra-fine particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three studies by a University of California, Davis, air-quality research group are adding to the growing body of data suggesting that very fine and ultra-fine airborne metal particles are closely linked to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough with light could help viral research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a method using the force of light to gently trap, manipulate and study tiny, active objects as miniscule as viruses -- opening doors to expanded viral research.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0