News tagged with metallic copper

Physicists find fractal boundaries in crystals

Blacksmiths make horseshoes by heating, beating and bending iron, but what's happening to the metal's individual atoms during such a process? Cornell researchers, using computational modeling, are providing ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers report breakthrough in narrow pitch interconnects

Imec researchers set major step towards 20nm half pitch interconnects with the realization of electrically functional copper lines embedded into silicon oxide using a spacer-defined double patterning approach. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with 'chemical precision'

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces. An international team of researchers, headed by ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Keeping the heat down

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic products are having to accommodate more and more components, all of which generate heat. Too much heat could put laptops and other devices out of action, so manufacturers equip ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Corrosion-resistant nanocoating for metals could replace toxic chromium

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles - particles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Paper electrified by copper particles

The Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles. When the size of particles is reduced to a nano-scale (one nanometre being one ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nano-twinned copper: Chinese-Danish scientists develop super strong nanometals

Research shows that it is possible to produce copper about 4 times stronger than commercial material - and doing so while also having a ductile material. As the thermal and electrical conductivity are also good, the manufacturing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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