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Adjusting acidity with impunity

Adjusting acidity with impunity

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technique ...


Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Substrates

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 4

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...


New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...


Computation helps predict heat transfer in diamond

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into many fields, including electronics.


IBM Announces Highest Performance Embedded Processor for System-on-Chip Designs

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.


'Wedding Cake' Images Display Transitions between Exotic Quantum States

'Wedding Cake' Images Display Transitions between Exotic Quantum States

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Transitions are exciting. And at temperatures close to absolute zero, studying the transition from one quantum phase to another tantalizes physicists looking for a deeper understanding of ...


Research pokes holes in Hubbard model: Could help solve enigma of high-temperature superconductors

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 6

New UBC research has literally and figuratively poked holes in single-band Hubbard physics--a model that has been used to predict and calculate the behavior of high-temperature superconductors for 20 years.


Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash.


Scientists discover, visualize exotic electrons on surfaces of unique insulators

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In two separate studies, Princeton-led teams of scientists have found a new type of “light-like” electron and visualized for the first time another type that doesn’t bounce back when material imperfections ...


A New Path of Conduction for Future Electronics

A New Path of Conduction for Future Electronics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory made headlines when they revealed experimental evidence of a topological insulator: a material that could revolutionize computer ...


'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure

'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the “giant magnetoresistance ...