News tagged with hexagonal structure
Creating Denser Magnetic Memory
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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It's raining pentagons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 08, 2009 |
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This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...
First tri-continuous mesoporous Silica complex structure developed in Singapore
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 05, 2009 |
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Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has developed the first tri-continuous mesoporous material using a unique surfactant template. This completely new porous structure previously been predicted ...
Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to modify future weather patterns.
In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2008 |
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For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.
Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2008 |
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For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.
New breakthrough in bubble research
Sep 02, 2009 |
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A researcher from the University of Bath has found a new approach to an old geometric problem of modelling the most efficient way of packing shapes to form a foam.
Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes
Jan 19, 2007 |
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The hexagonal network structure makes these nanotubes look a bit like a honeycomb—or, when stretched a bit, like a hammock or fish net. In fact, the stretchiness of these 20-nm-long carbon nanotubes enables ...
California's Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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A 17-member team has found what may be the smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction.
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 ...
Animated Movie of Ice
Jan 07, 2008 |
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An animated movie shows an ordered structure dissolving little by little into a disordered mess after a light pulse: Swedish researchers from the University of Uppsala have used a computer to simulate ice melting after it ...
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