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Glass you can build with

Glass you can build with: Metallic glass that's stronger and lasts longer

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- The normal structure of metals is crystalline. Glass, on the other hand, is amorphous. But it's possible to make amorphous forms of metal, metallic glasses, which can be remarkably strong, ...





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'One-pot' process can make more-efficient materials for fuel cells and solar cells

Researchers develop 'one-pot' porous surfaces for fuel cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Cornell researchers have developed a "one-pot" process to create porous films of crystalline metal oxides that could lead to more-efficient fuel cells and solar cells.


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 ...


Truth Is Stranger Than Science

Truth Is Stranger Than Science: Discovering true properties of metal oxides

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- To successfully compete in a global marketplace, manufacturers continually search for better materials: faster drying and less hazardous paint, longer-lasting sunscreen, and faster computers. ...


Technique creates metal memory and could lead to vanishing dents

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 29, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (53) | comments 0

Crumpled kitchen foil that lays flat for reuse. Bent bumpers that straighten overnight. Dents in car doors that disappear when heated with a hairdryer. These and other physical feats may become possible with a technique to ...


Thinnest superconducting metal created

Thinnest superconducting metal created

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin.


Precious Metal Crystals

New metal crystals, formed on a cotton assembly line

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components ...


NEC Develops Highly-Reliable Metal/High-K Gate Stack Transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 20, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NEC Corporation (NEC) today announced the joint development of a new technology for realizing low-power and high-performance SOC devices of technology nodes of 65 nm, 45 nm and beyond. The developed technology enables fabrication ...


Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals

Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

In the hands of jewelers, gold can be fashioned into rings and pendants of long-lasting beauty. But, when reduced in size to nanocrystals containing a few thousand atoms, this noble metal is a surprisingly ...


Penn study: Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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

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 ...


An organizer for silicon

An organizer for silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Organizers make life easier; aluminum could help the semi-conductor industry to convert silicon from a disordered to an ordered form at low temperatures. This crystalline silicon functions much more efficiently ...



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