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Energy in action: For two molecules on blind date, new method predicts potential for attraction or repulsion

(Phys.org) -- Krzysztof Szalewicz, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, and Rafal Podeszwa of the University of Silesia Institute of Chemistry in Poland have developed and validated ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Simulations unlock carbon nanotube potential for industry

a cylindrical network of molecules known as carbon nanotubes -- is attracting a great deal of attention from industry researchers these days.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoscopic static electricity generates chiral patterns

In the tiny world of amino acids and proteins and in the helical shape of DNA, a biological phenomenon abounds.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Single molecules in a quantum movie

The quantum physics of massive particles has intrigued physicists for more than 80 years, since it predicts that even complex particles can exhibit wave-like behaviour – in conflict with our everyday ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Graphene enhances many materials, but leaves them wettable

Graphene is the thinnest material known to science. The nanomaterial is so thin, in fact, water often doesn't even know it's there.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Frustration inspires new form of graphene

They're the building block of graphite – ultra-thin sheets of carbon, just one atom thick, whose discovery was lauded in 2010 with a Nobel Prize in Physics.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New equation predicts molecular forces in hydrophobic interactions

The physical model to describe the hydrophobic interactions of molecules has been a mystery that has challenged scientists and engineers since the 19th century. Hydrophobic interactions are central to explaining ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inside story: Chemical reactivity on the inner surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, the interior surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) has not been considered to be chemically reactive. Recently, however, researchers at the University of Nottingham School of Chemistry in the UK and the Ulm Un ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Water, water everywhere: Polarization dramatically affects H2O structure revealed through molecular dynamics simulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is essential to more than its myriad roles in biological, chemical, geological, and other physical processes. Having a precise description of water’s structure is critical to con ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Unexpected adhesion properties of graphene may lead to new nanotechnology devices

Graphene, considered the most exciting new material under study in the world of nanotechnology, just got even more interesting, according to a new study by a group of researchers at the University of Colorado ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Packing the ions: Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage

Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you're talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it's looking through an electron microscope or at a computer visualization. Yet ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Effects of atomic-scale roughness on adhesion between diamond surfaces

CNST Project Leader Rachel Cannara and collaborators from the United States Naval Academy (USNA) and the University of Pennsylvania have shown that atomic-scale surface roughness has a strong influence on adhesion for diamond, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Physicists take new look at the atom

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona physicists have discovered a new way to measure how single atoms interact with a surface. Their findings help develop nanotechnology and test new theories about the internal ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 14 | with audio podcast


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