News tagged with x ray photoelectron spectroscopy

How nitric acid overcame its fear of water with a little help from its friends

Whether it is a pond or raindrop, when a common nitrogen-containing acid encounters water's surface, it typically falls apart, dissociating into two charged particles. Except, sometimes it is able to hold ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Water-splitting Photocatalyst Brought to Light

(PhysOrg.com) -- To produce "green" fuels, some scientists are looking for a little help from above. Sunlight is the key ingredient in photocatalytic water splitting, a process that breaks down water into ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Scientists hone in on size and environmental influence of the quantum dots used in hybrid solar cells

(Phys.org) -- Sometimes to answer big questions, you need to start small-very small. Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Chemical Imaging Initiative did just that when they analyzed cadmium ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The origin of organic magnets

Electrical engineers are starting to consider materials made from organic molecules -- including those made from carbon atoms -- as an intriguing alternative to the silicon and metals used currently in electronic ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Engineers develop rapid, uniform dispersion method for carbon nanotubes in solutions and solids

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harnessing the power of carbon nanotubes could get considerably easier, thanks to an advance by engineers from the University of South Carolina and the University of Georgia.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fingerprinting uranium: X-rays identify mobile, stationary forms of atomic pollutant

(PhysOrg.com) -- Determining if uranium will zip through the soil or not is easier now, thanks to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of North Texas. Dr. Eugene Ilton and ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UV lithography: Taking extreme measures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometime soon, microchip fabricators will take the next major step in the relentless reduction of feature size, from the current minimum of 22 nm down to 10 nm and perhaps even smaller. Getting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Bright lights, small systems: Molecular differentiation using free-electron lasers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Double-core-hole (DCH) states – in which two electrons are ejected from their positions, creating vacancies – occurring at different atomic sites are very sensitive to the chemical ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Extreme ultraviolet movies reveal inside story of complex materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray movie technique using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses from Artemis (link opens in a new window), one of the world's most advanced lasers, could help unravel the mysteries of phenomena ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Berkeley lab scientists unveil an X-ray technique called HARPES

The expression “beauty’s only skin-deep” has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface. However, for many of the materials in today’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Complex oxide interfaces are more complex than previously thought

Using experimental resources at EMSL, scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University College London have shown that intermixing occurs at the interface of two perovskites – l ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A manganite changes its stripes

If there were a Hall of Fame for materials, manganites would be among its members. Some manganites, compounds of manganese oxides, are renowned for colossal magnetoresistance – the ability to suddenly ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14 | with audio podcast


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