News tagged with perforated metal

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Photon-plasmon coupling: Dye guides light through perforated metal foil

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as photons are bundles of light energy, plasmons are energy packets of plasma oscillations—oscillations of the electron density in a solid body, which are known as surface plasmons ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast




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First atomic-scale real-time movies of platinum nanocrystal growth in liquids

They won't be coming soon to a multiplex near you, but movies showing the growth of platinum nanocrystals at the atomic-scale in real-time have blockbuster potential. A team of scientists with the Lawrence ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Berkeley Lab tests cookstoves for Haiti

The developers of the fuel-efficient Berkeley-Darfur Stove for refugee camps in central Africa are at it once again, this time evaluating inexpensive metal cookstoves for the displaced survivors of last year's deadly earthquake ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop golden window electrodes for organic solar cells

Researchers at the University of Warwick have developed a gold plated window as the transparent electrode for organic solar cells. Contrary to what one might expect, these electrodes have the potential to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Controlling insects in stored grain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Aeration -- blowing ambient air through grain storage bins -- has been used for decades to maintain the quality of grain by keeping it cool, as well as to manage stored insect pests. But few ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New findings promising for 'transformation optics,' cloaking

Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in using new "metamaterials" for radical advances in optical technologies, including ultra-powerful microscopes and computers and a possible invisibility cloak.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new endoscopic technique for gastrointestinal perforations: the over-the-scope-clip

A research team from Italy successfully used a new endoscopic device, the over-the-scope-clip (OTSC), for the first time, to seal and close two gastrointestinal fistulas developed after gastric banding erosion. The OTSC may ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Perfectly shaped solid components

(PhysOrg.com) -- When metals are shaped, the materials they are made of are often damaged in the process. One cause of this is excessive press force, which cracks and perforates the material. By running simulations ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Glowing channels: Microanalysis system for rapid mercury detection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water contaminated with mercury is very dangerous for both people and the environment, as mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals. Though laboratory analyses do deliver precise quantitative measurements, ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key process for space outpost proved on 'vomit comet' ride

Flying high over the Gulf of Mexico, researchers from NASA and Case Western Reserve University found a key to unlocking oxygen from the surface of the moon.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Metaklett, a steely hook and loop fastener (w/ Video)

Hook and loop fasteners have become commonplace features of both industry and households. However, they have one snag: they are too weak for many applications. Hook and loop fasteners made of spring steel ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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