News tagged with crystallographic orientation
Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties
Feb 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene ...
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Nanostructures in 3D
Feb 22, 2006 |
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Max Planck researchers from Düsseldorf unveil the first three-dimensional electron microscope for examining nanomaterials structure. It is the world’s first electron microscope for simultaneously and automatically ...
Scientists carve functional nanoribbons using super-heated, nano-sized particles of iron
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, physicists ...
Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...
Shocked by therapies: psychologists reject sexual reorientation
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Aug 06, 2009 |
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US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed.
Micropatterned material surface controls cell orientation
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Cells could be orientated in a controlled way on a micro-patterned surface based upon a delicate material technique, and the orientation could be semi-quantitatively described by some statistical parameters, as suggested ...
Neural noise created during binocular rivalry
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Jun 19, 2009 |
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Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates.
It's not easy being gay
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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Members of 'sexual minorities' are around twice as likely as heterosexuals to seek help for mental health issues or substance abuse treatment. A model of treatment-seeking behavior, described in the open access journal BMC Ps ...
Confronting health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Research indicates that the social stigma that surrounds lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) teens leads to a variety of health risks such as substance use, risky sexual behaviors, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, ...
Bird can 'read' human gaze
Apr 02, 2009 |
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We all know that people sometimes change their behavior when someone is looking their way. Now, a new study reported online on April 2nd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that jackdaws—birds related to cro ...
Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...
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