News tagged with photochemical properties

Chemists shed light on sun's role mixing up molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Sydney scientists have discovered a startling new mechanism where sunlight can rearrange the atoms of molecules to form new chemical substances.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Truth Is Stranger Than Science: Discovering true properties of metal oxides

(PhysOrg.com) -- To successfully compete in a global marketplace, manufacturers continually search for better materials: faster drying and less hazardous paint, longer-lasting sunscreen, and faster computers. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2




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Light-emitting nanocrystal diodes go ultraviolet: Biomedical device potential for robust, implantable product

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ordered planar polymers created for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists under the direction of ETH Zurich have created a minor sensation in synthetic chemistry. They succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers model potential of toxic algae photoreceptors

Blue-green algae is causing havoc in Midwestern lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but researchers in a northwest Ohio lab are using supercomputers to study a closely related strain of the toxic cyanobacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Where no lab has gone before: Single-Molecule Electrokinetic Traps

(PhysOrg.com) -- To study the behavior of large protein complexes and long DNA chains in solution, researchers use so-called molecular traps. However, earlier traps have proven ineffective when working with s ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

NJIT professor develops biologically-inspired catalysis active, yet inert materials

NJIT Associate Professor Sergiu M. Gorun is leading a research team to develop biologically-inspired catalysis active, yet inert, materials. The work is based on organic catalytic framework made sturdy by the replacement ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team Harnessing Power of Photosynthesis To Make 'Green' Fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- When people at cocktail parties used to ask Charles Schmuttenmaer what he did, he would say he was a chemistry professor who worked on transient-photo conductivity in gallium arsenide. "At ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Asking 'what would nature do?' leads to a way to break down a greenhouse gas

A recent discovery in understanding how to chemically break down the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful form opens the doors for scientists to wonder what organism is out there - or could be created - to accomplish ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Discovery of an Unexpected Boost for Solar Water-Splitting Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has discovered, serendipitously, that a residue of a process used to build arrays of titania ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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

No quick or easy technological fix for climate change, researchers say

Global warming, some have argued, can be reversed with a large-scale "geoengineering" fix, such as having a giant blimp spray liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere or building tens of millions of chemical filter systems ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 7


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