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Motorized roller could mass-produce graphene-based devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding a simple, scalable way to pattern graphene for future electronics applications is one of the biggest challenges facing graphene researchers. While lithography has been widely used ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Liquid-OLED Offers More Light-Emitting Possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- As organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are poised to go mainstream in the near future, scientists continue to explore new twists on the technology. Recently, researchers have fabricated ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 1 feature

Research team uses nanoparticles to make paper waterproof and magnetic

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, led by Roberto Cingolani, have devised a means for connecting cellulose fibers in ordinary paper with nanoparticles resulting in new desired properties, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Safer way to make diazomethane developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diazomethane is a toxic, explosive reagent prepared as needed in laboratories, where it is commonly used in cyclopropanation, but its explosive nature prevents it being used widely on an industrial ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Graphene battery demonstrated to power an LED

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Hong Kong have reported, in ArXiv, their experiments to make a graphene battery that they say generates an electrical current by drawing on the ambient thermal energy in the sol ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (25) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

The annihilating effects of space travel

Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Upgrading the vanadium redox battery

Though considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery's use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and its high cost. But new research ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Good vibrations lead to molecular revelation

(PhysOrg.com) -- A little luck and the wisdom to recognize what they were seeing helped Rice University researchers solve a molecular conundrum in a way that could be a boon to chemists.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Peregrine's 'Soliton' observed at last

(PhysOrg.com) -- An old mathematical solution proposed as a prototype of the infamous ocean rogue waves responsible for many maritime catastrophes has been observed in a continuous physical system for the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (29) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Polymer-based filter successfully cleans water, recovers oil in Gulf of Mexico test

In response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, a University of Pittsburgh engineering professor has developed a technique for separating oil from water via a cotton filter coated in a chemical polymer that blocks ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Putting the pedal to the metal: Lithium metal improves fuel cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water splitting is a clean way to generate hydrogen, which is seen by many as the fuel of the future. Scientists from the Energy Technology Research Institute, AIST in Tsukuba, Japan now report ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 8

Going platinum: New catalyst could boost cleaner fuel use

(PhysOrg.com) -- Material scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a technique for a bimetallic fuel cell catalyst that is efficient, robust and two to five times more effective than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (24) | comments 5

Ethanol vs. Electricity: Biomass converted into electricity could be more efficient than ethanol (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Concerns over petroleum gas prices and long-term effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the environment have prompted scientists to look for alternative renewable energy sources for transportation ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 10

New method for magnetic manipulation of cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic technology could help address a major problem that bioengineers face as they try to create new tissue: getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3