Search results for oil droplets:
Toward giving artificial cells the ability for sustained movement (w/Video)
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Scientists in Japan are reporting an advance toward giving artificial cells another hallmark of life -- the ability to tap an energy source and use it to undergo sustained movement. Their study, published ...
The Physics of Oil Spill Cleanups
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Oil spills are a major environmental problem because they often occur at sea and in remote, ecologically-sensitive areas where their impact on birds, sea mammals and subsurface life may last for years.
Study on effect of electricity on liquids bucks conventional science (w/ Video)
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether gazing into lava lamps or watching balsamic vinegar mix with olive oil, people have long been transfixed by the seemingly mystical way that droplets of one liquid find each other within ...
Nanoparticle protects oil in foods from oxidation, spoilage
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a nanoparticle from corn, a Purdue University scientist has found a way to lengthen the shelf life of many food products and sustain their health benefits.
Cleaning up oil spills can kill more fish than spills themselves
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Kingston, ON - A new Queen's University study shows that detergents used to clean up spills of diesel oil actually increase its toxicity to fish, making it more harmful.
Emulsion with a round-trip ticket
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Oil and water are not miscible. However, it is possible to combine both into an emulsion in which they act as a unit—for example, in creams, body lotion, milk, or mayonnaise. In these substances, one of the two liquids is ...
Dancing droplets
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Our blood, sweat and tears are three precious fluids that can answer lots of questions about the state of our health but testing small amounts of bodily fluids, without contaminating them through contact with ...
New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...
Nanoparticles assemble by millions to encase oil drops
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 29, 2008 |
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In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at Rice University have shown how tiny, stick-shaped particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets ...
Scientists produce nanoscale droplets with cancer-fighting implications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists have succeeded in making unique nanoscale droplets that are much smaller than a human cell and can potentially be used to deliver pharmaceuticals.
New filtering technology has environmental, industrial applications
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Materials engineers have created a new type of membrane that separates oil from water and, if perfected, might be used for environmental cleanup, water purification and industrial applications.
Scientists solve gravity-defying bird beak mystery
May 15, 2008 |
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As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has now explained exactly how some shorebirds use ...
MIT creates new oil-repelling material
Dec 06, 2007 |
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MIT engineers have designed the first simple process for manufacturing materials that strongly repel oils. The material, which can be applied as a flexible surface coating, could have applications in aviation, ...
Gladstone scientists reveal the genetics of fat storage in cells
May 21, 2008 |
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New research by the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has revealed the genetic determinants of fat storage in cells, which may lead to a new understanding ...
Clemson research cleans up with edible oil
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Oil and water don't mix, and that could be the key to edible vegetable-based oil being the answer to contaminant clean-up.
