News tagged with hexagons
Pinpointing catalytic reactions on carbon nanotubes
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Among their many other interesting properties, carbon nanotubes have been found to act as catalysts for some important chemical reactions, including some that could be used to make cleaner ...
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Biochemists reveal details of mysterious bacterial microcompartments
Feb 21, 2008 |
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UCLA biochemists and colleagues have answered an important question about the structure of microcompartments — the mysterious molecular machines that seem to be present in a wide variety of pathogens and other ...
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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 ...
Improbable 'buckyegg' hatched
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2006 |
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An egg-shaped fullerene, or "buckyball egg" has been made and characterized by chemists at UC Davis, Virginia Tech and Emory and Henry College, Va. The unexpected discovery opens new possibilities for structures ...
Nanophysics: Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 - carbon buckyballs - on a silver ...
Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A network of proteins underlying the plasma membrane keeps epithelial cells in shape and maintains their orderly hexagonal packing in the mouse lens, say Nowak et al. The study will appear in the September ...
Electron spin and orbits in carbon nanotubes are coupled
Mar 26, 2008 |
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Researchers hoping to use carbon nanotubes for quantum computing -- in which the spin of a single electron would represent a bit of data -- may have to change their approaches, according to new Cornell research.
Could Graphene Replace Semiconductors?
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “People want a faster computer chip,” Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. “And it needs to be smaller. But in order to increase the speed of the chip, or to get it smaller, we are approaching a point where you ne ...
Scientists Track Heat in Tiny Rolls of Carbon Atoms
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon ...
Computer scientists develop model for studying arrangements of tissue networks by cell division
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Computer scientists at Harvard have developed a framework for studying the arrangement of tissue networks created by cell division across a diverse set of organisms, including fruit flies, tadpoles, and plants.
Scientists create first crystal structure of an intermediate particle in virus assembly
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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The structure, described February 8 in an advance online publication of the journal Nature, provides fresh insights into the elegant dance that viral proteins perform to create the infectious structure that causes all ma ...
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