News tagged with cadmium sulfide

Materials science reveals clues about pigment degrading on painting

(PhysOrg.com) -- The painting Le Bonheur de vivre, by Henri Matisse, is revered as one of two masterpieces that changed the course of painting in the early 20th century.

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Down to the wire: Inexpensive technique for making high quality nanowire solar cells developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar or photovoltaic cells represent one of the best possible technologies for providing an absolutely clean and virtually inexhaustible source of energy to power our civilization. However, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nanomaterials: Finding friends with a golden tip

Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor crystals that emit bright and tunable fluorescence. They are typically made of cadmium sulfide (CdS) or cadmium selenide (CdSe), and have a wide range of applications, including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flares on the move: Nanoparticle test kit shows how nanoparticles of different size disperse in tumor tissue

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoparticles play a significant role in the development of future diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for tumors, for example as transporters for drugs or as contrast agents. Absorption ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bristly Spheres as Capsules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amphiphilic molecules, which have one water-friendly (hydrophilic) end and one water-repellant (hydrophobic) end, spontaneously aggregate in aqueous solutions to make superstructures like ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0