News tagged with silver nitrate

Metamaterials may advance with new femtosecond laser technique

Researchers in applied physics have cleared an important hurdle in the development of advanced materials, called metamaterials, that bend light in unusual ways.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The toxicity of antimicrobial silver in products can be reduced

Chemists at the University of Helsinki (Finland) have managed to manufacture new polymer-stabilised silver nanoparticles. The result is significant because the antimicrobial characteristics of silver are used in textiles, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New silver nanoparticle skin gel for healing burns

Scientists in India are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections. With names like silver ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1




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Nanostarfruits are pure gold for research

(PhysOrg.com) -- They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Silver nanoparticles trap mercury

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who thinks amalgams are limited to tooth fillings is missing something: Amalgams, which are alloys of mercury and other metals, have been used for over 2500 years in the production ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists working on technique to use lasers to force rain

(PhysOrg.com) -- As with many of man's most basic ancient desires; to be able to fly, to become invisible etc. making it rain on command (or by prayer) has always been high on the list, and up to now, has ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Genome-wide mapping reveals developmental and environmental impacts

Complex traits that help plants adapt to environmental challenges are likely influenced by variations in thousands of genes that are affected by both the plant's growth and the external environment, reports a team of researchers ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two professors from the University of Illinois; one specializing in materials science, the other in electrical engineering, have combined their talents to take the idea of printing circuits ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Scientists demonstrate novel ionic liquid batteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the NRL Materials Science and Technology Division are providing solid evidence that there is a new route towards developing novel, lightweight energy storage devices. By moving ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electrifying new way to clean dirty water

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah researchers developed a new concept in water treatment: an electrobiochemical reactor in which a low electrical voltage is applied to microbes to help them quickly and efficiently remove ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Gold and silver nano baubles

They might just be the smallest Christmas tree decorations ever. Tiny spherical particles of gold and silver that are more than 100 million times smaller than the gold and silver baubles used to decorate seasonal fir trees ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Antibacterial silver nanoparticles are a blast

Writing in the International Journal of Nanoparticles, Rani Pattabi and colleagues at Mangalore University, explain how blasting silver nitrate solution with an electron beam can generate nanoparticles that are more effect ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Popular nanoparticle causes toxicity in fish, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- A nanoparticle growing in popularity as a bactericidal agent has been shown to be toxic to fish, according to a Purdue University study.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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