News tagged with self assembled monolayer

DNA as invisible ink can reversibly hide patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people know of DNA as the building blocks of life, these large molecules also have potential applications in areas such as biosensing, nanoparticle assembly, and building supramolecular ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Right first time: Pioneering new methods of drug manufacture

Engineers at the University of Leeds have developed a simple technology which can be used in existing chemical reactors to ensure "right first time" drug crystal formation.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mysterious charge transport in self-assembled monolayer transistors unraveled

An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs). ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes

(PhysOrg.com) -- To be useful in real-world applications, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of molecules on a surface must have a stable and controllable geometry. Researchers at Penn State and the Sigma-Aldrich ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Researchers present a shiny new tool for imaging biomolecules

At the heart of the immune system that protects our bodies from disease and foreign invaders is a vast and complex communications network involving millions of cells, sending and receiving chemical signals ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The world's first sterilizable flexible organic transistor

An international research team has succeeded in manufacturing on a polymeric film the world’s first flexible organic transistor that is robust enough under high temperature medical sterilization process. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cosmology in a Petri dish

Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Taking a page from nature to build better nanomaterials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes nature cannot be improved upon. One example is in the synthesis of nanomaterials, which in the laboratory or factory generally requires toxic chemicals and extreme conditions of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shaken, not stirred: Scientists spy molecular maneuvers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stir this clear liquid in a glass vial and nothing happens. Shake this liquid, and free-floating sheets of protein-like structures emerge, ready to detect molecules or catalyze a reaction. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers create nanoscale gold coating with largest-ever superlattice (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for creating a layer of gold nanoparticles that measures only billionths of a meter thick. These self-assembling gold coatings with features ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Terminating toxic metals: Molecularly engineered material solves complex environmental contamination issues

A whiteboard, dry-erase markers and curiosity can sometimes be the most powerful tools in the scientific toolkit to solve America's biggest challenges. And few problems pose as serious a threat to the environment ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Novel approach uses ion-molecule collisions, deposition to create sought-after material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Once only possible with expensive liquids and large amounts of waste, scientists can now create an efficient, easy-to-separate catalyst with small amounts of material, thanks to an innovative ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New method for studying molecule reactions a breakthrough in organic chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Good chemists are passive-aggressive -- they manipulate molecules without actually touching them.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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