News tagged with silver surface

High-tech tactic may expose stealthy salmonella

Even the smallest quantity of Salmonella may, in the future, be easily detected with a technology known as SERS, short for "surface-enhanced Raman scattering." U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese company develops silver ink that requires no heat to harden

(PhysOrg.com) -- Consider for a moment, all the circuit boards that have been made, particularly those in the past few years. Most have two parts to them, not including the board itself. The first are parts ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Scientists unravel human-ecosystem interactions

Whether it is a single rock being overturned or an entire mountaintop being removed, humans play a continuous role in environmental processes, and vice versa. Ecological scientists will discuss findings on human-ecosystem ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers 'design' therapeutic coatings of silver

(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss researchers have demonstrated how they can adjust process conditions to influence the properties of novel plasma polymer coatings containing silver nanoparticles. Tailor-made films can ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Silver proves its mettle for nanotech applications

The self-assembling properties of the DNA molecule have allowed for the construction of an intriguing range of nanoscale forms. Such nanoarchitectures may eventually find their way into a new generation of ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanophysics: Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter

Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 - carbon buckyballs - on a silver ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0