News tagged with organic letters

High reliability of flexible organic transistor memory looks promising for future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the constant demand for high-performance nonvolatile memory devices, researchers continue to develop better memories - ones with low power consumption, good reliability, and low manufacturing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Researchers show the way forward for improving organic and molecular electronic devices

Future prospects for superior new organic electronic devices are brighter now thanks to a new study by researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Working at the Lab's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Adjustable Fluidic Lenses for Eyesight Correction Applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Arizona have created a fluid-based opthalmic lens in which the amount of fluid can be constantly adjusted to provide customized eye correction. The lens may one day be incorporated ...

Physics / General Physics

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Common fungicide wreaks havoc on freshwater ecosystems

Chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides used pervasively on food crops and golf courses, was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms in a new study, University of South Florida researchers said ...

Biology / Ecology

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Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms 4 billion years ago

A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findin ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers extend genetic code of an entire animal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, have succeeded in manipulating the DNA of a nematode such that a ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Geologists find ponds not the cause of arsenic poisoning in India's groundwater

The source of arsenic in India's groundwater continues to elude scientists more than a decade after the toxin was discovered in the water supply of the Bengal delta in India. But a recent study with a Kansas State University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Expanding the degrees of surface freezing

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of the quest to form perfectly smooth single-molecule layers of materials for advanced energy, electronic, and medical devices, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...

Physics / General Physics

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Major hurdle cleared for organic solar cells

Solar energy is an environmentally-friendly way of producing electricity and is considered to be one of the most appealing options for the future.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Sunny Record: Breakthrough for Hybrid Solar Cells

German scientists at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) have succeeded in developing a method for treating the surface of nanoparticles which ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Nanodragsters hit the street: Scientists roll agile hot rod out of micro-garage (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists are getting better at building nanomachines, but Rice researchers continue to race ahead of the pack.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Purple is the new green: Researcher examines light harvesting properties of purple bacteria

Purple bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth. They are single celled microscopic organisms that play a vital role in sustaining the tree of life. This tiny organism lives in aquatic environments ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Mathematical keys to a sixth sense -- the lateral-line system

Biophysicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen are leading an effort to develop and apply models of the so-called lateral-line system found in fish and some amphibians. This sensory organ enables an animal, even in ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

More hurricanes in greener seas? Ocean color linked to formation, movement of tropical cyclones

More hurricanes may form in greener waters, where sunlight tends to be absorbed at shallower depths, than in clear seas, according to new research that draws a link between ocean color and the formation and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Buried silver nanoparticles improve organic transistors

Out of sight is not out of mind for a group of Hong Kong researchers who have demonstrated that burying a layer of silver nanoparticles improves the performance of their organic electronic devices without requiring complex ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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