The amount of structural damage that radiation causes in electronic materials at the atomic level may be at least ten times greater than previously thought.
General Physics
Jul 20, 2012
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Researchers in applied physics have cleared an important hurdle in the development of advanced materials, called metamaterials, that bend light in unusual ways.
Nanophysics
Mar 8, 2012
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Think of it as cooking with carbon spaghetti: A Kansas State University researcher is developing new ways to create and work with carbon nanotubes -- ultrasmall tubes that look like pieces of spaghetti or string.
Nanomaterials
Feb 6, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence ...
Scientists study the movement of charge carriers to design an organic LED that is energy efficient and still casts a warm, natural glow.
General Physics
Feb 1, 2012
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Imagine jeans, sweats or socks that clean and de-odorize themselves when hung on a clothesline in the sun or draped on a balcony railing. Scientists are reporting development of a new cotton fabric that does clean itself ...
Materials Science
Dec 14, 2011
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Graphene's star is rising as a material that could become essential to efficient, environmentally sound oil production. Rice University researchers are taking advantage of graphene's outstanding strength, light weight and ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 8, 2011
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Researchers often work with a narrow range of compounds when making organic electronics, such as solar panels, light emitting diodes and transistors. Professor Tim Bender and Ph.D. Candidate Graham Morse of University of ...
Materials Science
Nov 5, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand -- a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world -- into a "super sand" with five times the filtering capacity of ...
Materials Science
Jun 23, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Technology, Sydney scientists have reported remarkable results in developing a composite material based on graphite that is a thin as paper and ten times stronger than steel.
Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2011
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