News tagged with electrostatic interactions
Nanoscopic static electricity generates chiral patterns
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 02, 2009 |
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In the tiny world of amino acids and proteins and in the helical shape of DNA, a biological phenomenon abounds.
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When atoms getting close: Shortest carbon-chlorine single bond detected
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 04, 2009 |
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The description of compounds and interactions between atoms is one of the basic objectives of chemistry. Admittedly, chemical bonding models, which describe these properties very well, already exist. However, any deviation ...
Researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modeling and Caltech experimental ...
Switchable Adhesive
Jul 24, 2007 |
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Two surfaces stick together, separate, and stick together again—on command. This discovery by a team of researchers from the Universities of Sheffield (UK) and Bayreuth contradicts our day-to-day experience.
New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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The dream of personalized medicine — in which diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile — may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of ...
Scientists demonstrate potential of graphene films as next-generation transistors
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have characterized an aspect of graphene film behavior by measuring the way it conducts electricity on a substrate. This milestone advances the potential application of graphene, ...
Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...
Light-sensitive particles change chemistry at the flick of a switch
Physics /
Mar 27, 2006 |
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A light-sensitive, self-assembled monolayer that provides unique control over particle interactions has been developed by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Particles coated with the monolayer change ...
DNA Taxi: Photosensitive gold nanoparticles bind and release DNA
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 27, 2006 |
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Despite few successes to date, gene therapy is a highly promising approach for medical therapy in the future. One of the biggest difficulties with this process is finding a suitable transport agent that can carry the nucleic ...
Discovered after 40 years: Moon dust hazard influenced by Sun's elevation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2009 |
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the Apollo Moon Program struggled with a minuscule, yet formidable enemy: sticky lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study reveals that forces compelling lunar dust to cling to surfaces ...
Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ...
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