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The great gas hydrate escape

For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Record conductivity achieved in strained lattice organic semiconductor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic semiconductors could usher in an era of foldable smartphones, better high-definition television screens and clothing made of materials that can harvest energy from the sun needed to ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diamonds and dust for better cement

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's no surprise that humans the world over use more water, by volume, than any other material. But in second place, at over 17 billion tons consumed each year, comes concrete made with Portland ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bright future for gaN nanowires

The gallium nitride nanowires grown by PML scientists may only be a few tenths of a micrometer in diameter, but they promise a very wide range of applications, from new light-emitting diodes and diode lasers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's lightest material developed

A team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world's lightest material – with a density of 0.9 mg / cc – about 100 times lighter ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Nanowires could be solution for high performance solar cells

Tiny wires could help engineers realize high-performance solar cells and other electronics, according to University of Illinois researchers.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Structural consequences of nanolithography

(PhysOrg.com) -- Users from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Center for Nanophase Materials Science, working with the X-Ray Microscopy Group, have discovered structural effects accompanying the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Extended Coulomb failure criteria for the Zipingpu reservoir and Longmenshan slip

The extended Coulomb failure stress (ECFS) criteria and anisotropic porosity and permeability tensor at micro/meso/macro scale under ultra‑high temperature and pressure (UTP) conditions were developed ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Nano-LEDs emit full visible spectrum of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from Taiwan have designed and fabricated nano-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light spanning the entire visible spectrum. Although the tiny full-color LEDs aren't intended ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Family of flower-like defects may help graphene structures respond to stress without ripping

Beyond its ability to conduct electrons almost without resistance, the nanomaterial graphene also has amazing mechanical properties, including high strength that could one day make it useful in lightweight, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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