News tagged with dimers
Porphyrin Dimers Increase Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Oct 30, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (12) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins are most commonly thought of as the pigment in red blood cells, but now scientists have found that porphyrins can also be used to increase the efficiency of an inexpensive type ...
Bristly Spheres as Capsules
Mar 06, 2009 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
(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 ...
Search results for dimers
Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange
May 08, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (52) |
8
Hydrogen bonds are quite small, on the level of a few angstroms. They can also be passed between two different molecules very quickly, at speeds of tens of times per second. But in spite of these properties, ...
Creating Denser Magnetic Memory
Jul 07, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (6) |
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 ...
Link uncovered between viral RNA and human immune response
Aug 04, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its fight against an intruding virus, an enzyme in our immune system may sense certain types of viral RNA pairs, according to scientists.
Carbon nanotube building blocks open up possibilities for advanced electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 05, 2006 |
3.7 / 5 (25) |
0
A new method to systematically modify the structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes could expand their electronic properties and open the path to nano-electronics.
Riding the dimer
Physics /
Jan 18, 2006 |
4.4 / 5 (8) |
0
New view attained of electronic orbitals of separating molecules Imagine you are standing, John Wayne style, on the backs of two runaway horses pulling a stagecoach. You try to bring the horses to a stop ...
Rice University researchers create 'nanorice'
Mar 14, 2006 |
4.4 / 5 (11) |
0
Who better to invent "nanorice" than researchers at Rice University? But marketing and whimsy weren't what motivated the team of engineers, physicists and chemists from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) ...
Scientists get detailed glimpse of chemoreceptor architecture in bacterial cells
Sep 24, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, a team led by researchers from Caltech has for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors—the receptors that sense ...
Researchers observe single protein dimers wavering between two symmetrically opposed structures
Jun 19, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego, and Ohio State University have used a very sensitive fluorescence technique to find that a bacterial protein thought to exist in one ...
Researchers determine toxic levels of Alzheimer's clusters in brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 11, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
Scientists have long suspected that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is caused by a small protein called the amyloid β-protein (Aβ). This protein clumps or binds to itself, eventually changing chemically to create brain ...
Fascinating Spider Silk
Apr 04, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (19) |
0
Stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber: spider silk is unsurpassed in its expandability, resistance to tearing, and toughness. Spider silk would be an ideal material for a large variety of medical and technical ...
List of search results for dimers
