By synthesizing carbon nanoparticles from sugar and a source of cellulose such as newspapers, researchers in the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry have developed a material that could be used as a sensor as its components ...
Materials Science
Feb 15, 2017
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Together with TEEMP (a company in the RENOVA group), a group of NUST MISIS scientists led by Professor Mikhail Astakhov, head of the NUST MISIS Department of Physical Chemistry, has completed the testing of an innovative ...
Engineering
Jan 31, 2017
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In the future, it will be possible to carry out tests of new drugs on bacteria much more efficiently using microfluidic devices, in which each of the thousands of droplets moving through the microchannels can act as separate ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 12, 2017
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Just like carbon atoms in sheets of graphene, nanoparticles can form stable layers with minimal thicknesses of the diameter of a single nanoparticle. A novel method of linking nanoparticles into such extremally thin films ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 4, 2016
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Intuition suggests that a sample of material compressed uniformly from all sides should reduce its dimensions. Only a few materials subjected to hydrostatic compression exhibit the opposite behaviour, expanding slightly in ...
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2016
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A single drop with the volume of a millionth of a litre is really not very large and certainly does not look like something you can do much with. However, a simple device, constructed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry ...
Materials Science
Jun 16, 2016
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Fungal infections are a serious problem in modern health care. A critical factor in their successful treatment is time: the faster they are detected, the more effectively dangerous infections can be prevented. At the Institute ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 27, 2016
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Proteins are the molecules of life. They are chemically programmed by their amino acid sequence to fold into highly organized conformations that underpin all of biological structure (e.g., hair, scales) and function (e.g., ...
General Physics
Mar 21, 2016
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Under certain conditions, appropriately selected particles can form closed surfaces in liquids with surprisingly complex shapes, cutting through space via a regular network of channels. Advanced theoretical modelling carried ...
Materials Science
Mar 16, 2016
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Usually, measuring the pH of a solution is not a problem. But how can researchers examine changes in acidity or alkalinity occurring at the nanoscale, for example, at a surface showing the very first signs of pitting corrosion? ...
Materials Science
Mar 10, 2016
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