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Research team creates photoelectrowetting circuit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Working together, Matthieu Gaudet and Steve Arscott from the University of Lille (IEMN lab) in France have built a circuit using a phenomenon known as photoelectrowetting, which allows a switch ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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A new twist on surface tension
(PhysOrg.com) -- On a mission to manipulate microscale structures of materials, researchers engineer new methods of controlling surface tension.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Shearing triggers odd behavior in microscopic particles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic spheres form strings in surprising alignments when suspended in a viscous fluid and sheared between two plates — a finding that will affect the way scientists think about ...
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Engineer guest authors PNAS commentary on directing colloidal assembly
The University of Delaware's Eric M. Furst authored a commentary in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) advance online edition Dec. 19.
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Slow road to stability for emulsions
By studying the behavior of tiny particles at an interface between oil and water, researchers at Harvard have discovered that stabilized emulsions may take longer to reach equilibrium than previously thought.
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Unlocking jams in fluid materials: A theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter
In a study recently published in European Physical Journal E (EPJE), a German scientist constructed a theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter that can be applied in food and cosmetics produc ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Making complex fluids look simple
An international research team has successfully developed a widely applicable method for discovering the physical foundations of complex fluids for the first time. Researchers at the University of Vienna and ...
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Rainbows without pigments offer new defense against fraud
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have developed pigment-free, intensely coloured polymer materials, which could provide new, anti-counterfeit devices on passports or banknotes due to their difficulty ...
May 18, 2011 |
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Osmosis in colloidal suspensions
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is very difficult to overestimate the importance of colloidal suspensions. Besides being an integral part of our everyday life (food, cosmetics, drugs), they also serve as an excellent ...
May 18, 2011 |
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New microscope produces dazzling 3-D movies of live cells (w/ video)
A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light -- similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners ...
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Physicists develop potent packing process
New York University physicists have developed a method for packing microscopic spheres that could lead to improvements in commercial products ranging from pharmaceutical lotions to ice cream. Their work, which relies on an ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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When worms stick together and swim on thin water, what happens and why does it matter?
Nematodes, microscopic worms, are making engineers look twice at their ability to exhibit the "Cheerios effect" when they move in a collective motion.
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Clay-armored bubbles may have formed first protocells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Researchers identify fundamental property of how water, other liquids move at different temperatures
In a finding that has been met with surprise and some controversy in the scientific community, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a basic property that governs the way water and many other liquids behave as ...
Jan 14, 2011 |
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Trapped sunlight cleans water
High energy costs are one drawback of making clean water from waste effluents. According to an article in the journal Biomicrofluidics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, a new system that combines two di ...
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Something old, something new: Evolution and the structural divergence of duplicate genes
Jan 31, 2012 |
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The hidden nanoworld of ice crystals: Revealing the dynamic behavior of quasi-liquid layers
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Stock market network reveals investor clustering
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Of microchemistry and molecules: Electronic microfluidic device synthesizes biocompatible probes
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Functionally graded shape memory polymers developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Patrick T. Mather, director of Syracuse Biomaterials Institute (SBI) and Milton and Ann Stevenson professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in Syracuse University’s ...
Bioengineers discover how particles self-assemble in flowing fluids
(PhysOrg.com) -- From atomic crystals to spiral galaxies, self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature. In biological processes, self-assembly at the molecular level is particularly prevalent.
Secrets of sharks' success
New research from the University of South Florida suggests that one of the evolutionary secrets of the shark's success hides in one of its tiniest traits -- flexible scales on the bodies of these peerless ...
Swimming microorganisms stir things up
Two separate research groups are reporting groundbreaking measurements of the fluid flow that surrounds freely swimming microorganisms. Experiments involving two common types of microbes reveal the ways that ...
Analysis of atmosphere in Phoenix, Ariz., suggests new model for sound urban growth policies
Atmospheric research often focuses on clouds' impact on weather and climate. Yet even low clouds are a long way off, with a base some 6,000 feet above earth. University of Notre Dame fluid dynamics and engineering professor ...
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Research shows heat increases stability of thin-film coatings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how thin-film coatings react to temperature changes could lead to more effective and durable sensors, solar-energy converters, safer medical implants and a host of other applications, ...
The complex lives of bubbles revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The mystery surrounding what happens when bubbles collide has finally been busted. And knowing how bubbles bounce apart and fuse together could improve the quality of ice-cream and champagne as well as increase ...
Purple is the new green: Researcher examines light harvesting properties of purple bacteria
Purple bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth. They are single celled microscopic organisms that play a vital role in sustaining the tree of life. This tiny organism lives in aquatic environments ...
Experimental explanation of supercooling: Why water does not freeze in the clouds (w/ Video)
Supercooling, a state where liquids do not solidify even below their normal freezing point, still puzzles scientists today. A good example of this phenomenon is found everyday in meteorology: clouds in high ...
Engineers track bacteria's kayak paddle-like motion for first time
Yale engineers have for the first time observed and tracked E. coli bacteria moving in a liquid medium with a motion similar to that of a kayak paddle.
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