Making new materials with micro-explosions
Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material.
Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material.
Condensed Matter
Jun 29, 2015
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Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Vienna University of Technology and the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin have succeeded in embedding nearly perfect semiconductor crystals into ...
Nanophysics
Jul 23, 2014
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Tiny silicon crystals caused no health problems in monkeys three months after large doses were injected, marking a step forward in the quest to bring such materials into clinics as biomedical imaging agents, according to ...
Nanophysics
Jul 31, 2013
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(Phys.org) —It is very annoying when colors fade over time, sometimes simply from exposure to light. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Japanese scientists have now introduced a new type of colorfast, environmentally friendly ...
Materials Science
May 28, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Squeeze a piece of silicone and it quickly returns to its original shape, as squishy as ever. But scientists at Rice University have discovered that the liquid crystal phase of silicone becomes 90 percent stiffer ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 29, 2013
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Like spreading a thin layer of butter on toast, Cornell scientists have helped develop a novel process of spreading extremely thin organic transistors, and used synchrotron X-rays to watch how the films crystallize.
Condensed Matter
Apr 18, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland, College Park, have built a practical, high-efficiency nanostructured electron source. Described in the journal ...
Nanophysics
Mar 6, 2013
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A team of scientists has successfully reproduced conditions in one of the most hostile environments in the galaxy, enabling them to find out more about how atoms behave in these extreme settings.
Astronomy
Feb 14, 2013
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A new way of making crystalline silicon, developed by U-M researchers, could make this crucial ingredient of computers and solar cells much cheaper and greener.
Materials Science
Jan 24, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University have fabricated the first ordered arrays of silicon nanocrystals reported to date. Brian A. Korgel and colleagues developed a new chemical ...
Nanophysics
Nov 21, 2012
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