News tagged with tetrahedral lattice

Researchers reveal the internal dance of water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is familiar to everyone - it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery, with the substance exhibiting many ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2




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Physicists find evidence of new state of matter in a simple oxide

Symmetry is a fundamental concept in physics. Our ‘standard model’ of particle physics, for example, predicts that matter and anti-matter should have been created in equal amounts at the big bang, yet our ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Probing spin liquids with a new pulsed-magnet system

Entirely new experimental vistas could be opened by a device called a precursor pulsed-magnet system developed by an international team of scientists. This system can generate magnetic fields as high as 30 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers Rediscover the Structure of Water

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource has found the molecular structure of water to be more complex than recently thought, suggesting that molecular models ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Natural Oils Can Be Hydrogenated Without Making Unhealthy Trans Fats

(PhysOrg.com) -- To prolong the shelf life of foods, manufacturers often add hydrogen to natural oils, a process called hydrogenation. But hydrogenation also results in the production of trans fats, which have adverse health ...

Chemistry /

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water

The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy's Stanford ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (151) | comments 14

Animated Movie of Ice

An animated movie shows an ordered structure dissolving little by little into a disordered mess after a light pulse: Swedish researchers from the University of Uppsala have used a computer to simulate ice melting after it ...

Chemistry /

created Jan 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Mobile metal atoms

Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods—the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power. These batteries offer the highest energy density, allow ...

Chemistry /

created Jan 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Mobile Metal Atoms: New class of lithium-rich solids with unusually high lithium mobility

Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods—the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power.

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created Dec 28, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (42) | comments 0

Nanoscale Cubes and Spheres

Porous nano-objects with defined sizes and structures are particularly interesting, for example, as capsules for enzymes, a means of transport for pharmaceutical agents, or building blocks for larger nanostructures.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 03, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0

SPPS traces atoms from solid to liquid

When a snowball melts, you can tell it has achieved a liquid state when the frigid water drips through your fingers. But if you could follow the melting process, driven by the heat of your hand, from its very ...

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created Dec 06, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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