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Physicists offer new theory for iron compounds

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.





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Researchers answer long-standing question in the field of condensed matter physics

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 06, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Northeastern University Physics professor Sergey V. Kravchenko along with colleagues Svetlana Anissimova (Northeastern University), A Punnoose (City College if the City University of New York), AM Finkelstein (Weizmann Institute ...


Surprisingly, chemists find, some solvents can alter chemical bonds

Chemistry /

created Jul 24, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

New University at Buffalo research demonstrates that some solvents can significantly enhance certain acid-base interactions and strengthen the bonding interaction between two molecules when one is electron-deficient and one ...


Researchers untangle quantum quirk

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (28) | comments 1

Quantum computing has been hailed as the next leap forward for computers, promising to catapult memory capacity and processing speeds well beyond current limits. Several challenging problems need to be cracked, however, before ...


Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New insight into how nature handles some fundamental processes is guiding researchers in the design of tailor-made proteins for applications such as artificial photosynthetic centers, long-range ...


Physicists observe kink in the dispersion of f-electrons

Physicists observe kink in the dispersion of f-electrons

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos researchers in collaboration with colleagues in US and Europe report on the observation of a kink in the dispersion of f-electrons in USb2.


The closest look ever at native human tissue

The closest look ever at native human tissue

Biology /

created Dec 05, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seeing proteins in their natural environment and interactions inside cells has been a long-standing goal. Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European ...


New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, including graduate student David Bernstein, have made a promising discovery that a well-known synchrotron technique ...


Carbon molecule with a charge could be tomorrow's semiconductor

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications.


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Modeling the movement of electrons at the molecular scale

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 12, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Finding more efficient ways of storing and using energy requires scientists to first look at the particles that set these fundamental processes in motion – the electrons. Controlling the movement of electrons ...


Magnetism loses under pressure

Magnetism loses under pressure

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under pressure. Researchers from the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical ...



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