News tagged with phosphorous
NREL Finds a Way to Give LEDs the Green Light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Light bulbs that last 100 years and fill rooms with brilliant ambiance may become a reality sooner rather than later, thanks to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory discovery.
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Scientists propose new hypothesis on the origin of life
The Miller-Urey experiment, conducted by chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in 1953, is the classic experiment on the origin of life. It established that the early Earth atmosphere, as they pictured it, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 04, 2009 |
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World phosphorous use crosses critical threshold
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recalculating the global use of phosphorous, a fertilizer linchpin of modern agriculture, a team of researchers warns that the world's stocks may soon be in short supply and that overuse in the industrialized ...
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) television - it's all done with mirrors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Californian company Prysm has unveiled a high definition television with a "laser phosphor display" based on their patented method of using lasers reflected off a bank of mirrors to excite pixels on the television screen in a similar way to cathode ray tubes. ...
Prysm's Ecovative Laser Phosphor Displays (LPDs): Consumer Tech Will Have To Wait
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ecovative. It's a word that may not have made it to your Webster's yet, but it has made it to 21st century design and technology. Ecovative is a movement, actually, that employs naturally ...
Scientists cage chemical demon
A Cambridge University-led research team has discovered a technique to safely handle and transport white phosphorous.
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Phosphorous in sodas and processed foods accelerates signs of aging, scientists say
Here's another reason to kick the soda habit. New research published online in the FASEB Journal shows that high levels of phosphates may add more "pop" to sodas and processed foods than once thought. That's because resear ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 26, 2010 |
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LED closes the yellow gap: Full conversion of blue into amber light by new nitride phosphor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Monochromatic light-emitting diodes cover a large part of the visible spectrum with high effi-ciency. For blue light, nitride diodes achieve external quantum efficiencies in excess of 65%, ...
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Carbon nanotube polymer nanocomposites for field emission cathodes
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that you can produce a composite of carbon nanotubes ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Purdue startup hopes to change the way we test cancer drugs
A Purdue University scientist's nanopolymer would make it easier and cheaper for drug developers to test the effectiveness of a widely used class of cancer inhibitors.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 16, 2011 |
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UGA, UPR grant license for long-persistence glow materials, in any color
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGARF) and the University of Puerto Rico have granted an international, non-exclusive license for a portfolio of glow-in-the-dark pigments that can be designed ...
Aug 17, 2009 |
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