News tagged with benzene rings


A Better Way to Make Nanotubes

A Better Way to Make Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound synthesized for the first time by Berkeley Lab scientists could help to push nanotechnology out of the lab and into faster electronic devices, more powerful sensors, and other advanced ...





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Molecule Within a Molecule

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 12, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

All children are fascinated by Russian dolls: when the largest outer wooden figure is opened, a second, smaller, nearly identical doll appears. This one can also be opened and so on…. This toy could well have inspired T. ...


Creating Denser Magnetic Memory

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues afflicting magnetic memory is the fact that it is difficult to store information for as long as 10 years. In order to overcome this problem, scientists and engineers have been looking for ...


Pointing the Way

Researchers confirm benzene-like electron delocalization of important molecule

Chemistry /

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

[B]UO team's findings could pave way for synthetic compounds useful in drug discovery and materials science[/B] Researchers in the lab of University of Oregon chemist Shih-Yuan Liu have successfully synthesized and ...


Cassini Reveals New Ring Quirks, Shadows During Saturn Equinox

Cassini Reveals New Ring Quirks, Shadows During Saturn Equinox

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were almost ...


Australia's climate: Drought and flooding in annual rings of tropical trees

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Annual rings are acclaimed in representing natural climate archives. For the temperate latitudes it is known that the growth of these annual rings depend mainly on temperature and precipitation. In the tropics, however, ...


Saturn's Crazy Christmas Tilt

Saturn's Crazy Christmas Tilt

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

You look through the telescope. Blink. Shake your head and look again. The planet you expected to see in the eyepiece is not the one that's actually there. Too much eggnog? No, it's just Saturn's crazy Christmas ...


Boron-based compounds trick a biomedical protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists and biologists have successfully demonstrated that specially synthesized boron compounds are readily accepted in biologically active enzymes, a move that, they say, is a proof of concept that could ...


Boron-based compounds trick a biomedical protein

Boron-based compounds trick a biomedical protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chemists and biologists have successfully demonstrated that specially synthesized boron compounds are readily accepted in biologically active enzymes, a move that, they say, is a proof of concept that could ...


Tethered Molecules Act as Light-Driven Reversible Nanoswitches

Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Our ability to see is based on molecules in the eye that flip from one conformation to another when exposed to visible light. Now, a new technique for attaching light-sensitive organic molecules to metal ...


Study of 'Persistent Currents' Finally Verifies Theory

Study of 'Persistent Currents' Finally Verifies Theory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Approximately 20 years ago, scientists discovered that is is possible for an electric current to flow endlessly in a ring made of a normal metal. One might think that such an 'old' finding ...



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