News tagged with spectroscopy
New INL project tackles nuclear fuel recycling science
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel.
Sep 24, 2009 |
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New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants
Thanks to a new analytical method employed by researchers at the University of Delaware, scientists can now pinpoint, at the millisecond level, what happens as harmful environmental contaminants such as arsenic ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Chemists create protein structure database
(PhysOrg.com) -- Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein, thanks to recently published work led by Harold A. Scheraga, Cornell's Todd ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Toward making smart phone touch-screens more glare and smudge resistant
Scientists have discovered the secret to easing one of the great frustrations of the millions who use smart phones, portable media players and other devices with touch- screens: Reducing their tendency to ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Multi-laboratory study sizes up nanoparticle sizing
As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. The study, which ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Making crowns stick to teeth more effectively
Dentists want those expensive crowns to stick to the teeth. But it doesn’t always happen because of contamination during the crown’s bonding.
Jul 20, 2009 |
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'Normal' cells far from cancer give nanosignals of trouble
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Northwestern University-led study of human colon, pancreatic and lung cells is the first to report that cancer cells and their non-cancerous cell neighbors, although quite different under the microscope, ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Alzheimer's research yields potential drug target
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara and several other institutions have found laboratory evidence that a cluster of peptides may be the toxic agent in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists say the discovery may lead ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer
Carbon nanotubes, one of the original engineered nanomaterials, also may prove to be among the most versatile, as numerous teams of investigators continue to develop novel nanotube-based therapeutic and diagnostic tools. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Formation of the smallest droplet of acid
Exactly four water molecules and one hydrogen chloride molecule are necessary to form the smallest droplet of acid. This was the result of work by the groups of Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (physical chemistry) ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Creating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets
Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. have created an "astro-comb" to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant stars. The Harvard group will present ...
May 07, 2009 |
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Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers
(PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Researcher: Lasers used to detect melamine in baby formula
With equipment readily available to health officials and businesses, a Purdue University researcher has found a way to detect trace amounts of melamine in infant formula.
Apr 30, 2009 |
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'Taco shell' protein: Orientation of middle man in photosynthetic bacteria described
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find ...
Apr 13, 2009 |
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