News tagged with adhesive bonds

Scientists take up golf to prove long-standing theory of cell stickiness

State-of-the-art, highly-sensitive golf clubs, developed by scientists, regularly catch the eye of golf's elite; however before the likes of Rory McIlroy get excited this time, this new golf putter is being ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research improves the bolted joints in airplanes

A research project at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid that analyzes the bolted joints used in the aeronautical industry has determined the optimum force that should be applied so that they may better withstand ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New adhesive device could let humans walk on walls (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Could humans one day walk on walls, like Spider-Man? A palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond just might make it possible.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Tiny capsules can deliver drugs to targeted cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the bloodstream.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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GABA signaling prunes back copious 'provisional' synapses during neural circuit assembly

Quite early in its development, the mammalian brain has all the raw materials on hand to forge complex neural networks. But forming the connections that make these intricate networks so exquisitely functional is a process ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Carbon nanotubes best for 3D electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Chalmers have demonstrated that two stacked chips can be vertically interconnected with carbon nanotube vias through the chips. This new method improves possibilities for 3D ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles offer insights into interactions between single-stranded DNA and their binding proteins

Double-stranded DNA must disentangle itself into single strands during replication or repair to allow functional molecules to bind and perform their various operations. Cellular proteins specifically bind ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ultrafine processing technology continues its evolution

The performance of optical and electronic components such as lenses and semiconductors is strongly influenced by the precision of surface grinding, which involves shaping the surface, and polishing, and provides ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Observed 'live': Water is an active team player for enzymes

In biologically active enzyme substrate compounds, as can be found in medicines, water plays a more decisive role than has been imagined up to now. The surrounding water acts like an "adhesive", in order to keep the substrate ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robots are coming to aircraft assembly

Up to now, aircraft have been put together in huge assembly cells, but to build the necessary facilities is expensive and time-consuming. That is why Fraunhofer researchers have come up with a flexible assembly-line ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

3M and IBM to develop new types of adhesives to create 3D semiconductors

3M and IBM announced that the two companies plan to jointly develop the first adhesives that can be used to package semiconductors into densely stacked silicon “towers.” The companies are aiming ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Unexpected adhesion properties of graphene may lead to new nanotechnology devices

Graphene, considered the most exciting new material under study in the world of nanotechnology, just got even more interesting, according to a new study by a group of researchers at the University of Colorado ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Disease-causing tangle could spawn new materials

When most people hear the word amyloid, they immediately think of Alzheimer's disease. And indeed, it was in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that these dense protein masses were first identified. But it ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Nanometer-scale layers between materials have both solid and liquid characteristics

Researchers at the Technion have discovered the nature of nanometer-thick layers between different materials and found that they have both solid and liquid properties. By doing so, the researchers made a crucial ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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