News tagged with atomic force


New advance in revolutionary 'bullet fingerprinting' technique

New Advance in Revolutionary 'Bullet Fingerprinting' Technique

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 12, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Bullet fingerprinting' technology developed at the University of Leicester in collaboration with Northamptonshire Police is now being advanced in new ways.


Physics research with atomic force microscope could lead to better health care

Atomic force microscope research could lead to better health care

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Where biology, chemistry and physics intersect, a Kansas State University professor expects to find applications to improve human health.


Scientists develop novel ion trap for sensing force and light

Scientists develop novel ion trap for sensing force and light

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Miniature devices for trapping ions (electrically charged atoms) are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at the National Institute ...


Stream of sand behaves like water

Streaming sand grains help define essence of a liquid (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Chicago researchers recently showed that dry granular materials such as sands, seeds and grains have properties similar to liquid, forming water-like droplets when poured from a given source. ...


Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope

Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...


New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered ...


Cancerous and normal cells

Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that cancerous cells and normal cells have different physical features, but the details of these differences, and why they occur, are not well understood. In a recent edition ...


Engineers create DNA sensors that could identify cancer using material only one atom thick

New DNA sensors could identify cancer using graphene

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Kansas State University engineers think the possibilities are deep for a very thin material.


New molecular force probe stretches molecules, atom by atom

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.


Making a point: Picoscale stability in a room-temperature AFM

Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount ...


Researchers create atomic-sized one-stop shop for nanoelectronics (Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale one-stop shop, a single platform for creating electronics at a nearly single-atom scale that could yield advanced forms of such technologically ...


Chemists create two-armed nanorobotic device to maneuver world's tiniest particles

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have developed a two-armed nanorobotic device that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. The device is described in the latest issue of the ...


Nanocrack Evolution

Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...