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Researchers See Complex Atomic Choreography as Crystals Melt

Researchers See Complex Atomic Choreography as Crystals Melt

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conga lines of atoms wend their way through a crystal, their numbers growing as more and more atoms join the migration. The worm-like lines of atoms randomly converge, forming tangles that ...





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Samsung Develops World’s First 'Blue Phase' Technology to Achieve 240 Hz Driving Speed for High-Speed Video

Samsung Develops World’s First 'Blue Phase' Technology to Achieve 240 Hz Driving Speed for High-Speed Video

Electronics / Hardware

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world’s first “Blue Phase” LCD panel – which will offer more natural moving images with an unprecedented image-driving speed of 240 Hertz. Samsung ...


Scientists confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, ...


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Scientists Observe Liquid Water Below Freezing

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Below 0 °C, water turns to ice. But beyond that, or below about -75 °C, the ice may turn back into liquid water. While scientists have previously predicted this phase transition with computer ...


Good liquid, bad liquid

Good liquid, bad liquid (Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

For airline passengers everywhere, good news. Scientists have successfully tested a liquid explosive detection system that may eventually keep dangerous substances off airplanes. This comes barely two years ...


Researchers develop an intelligent chip which regulates diabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists of the Electronic Technology group of the University of Seville (Spain), led by Professor José Manuel Quero, have completed the first phase of Mireia, a research project financed by the Plan Nacional del ...


Under certain conditions, carbon dioxide self-seals cracks

Supercritical CO2 boosts super optimism in sequestering greenhouse gas

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (25) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists appear to have the rock-solid evidence that suggests carbon dioxide can be safely and permanently sequestered in deep, underground basalt rock formations, without risk of it eventually ...


Liquid or solid? Charged nanoparticles in lipid membrane decide

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Like water and ice cubes mixed in a glass, a group of organic compounds called lipids can coexist as liquid and solid in membranes. This patchiness in phospholipid membranes is fundamental to their use as biomolecules and ...


Researchers Use Smallest Pipette to Reveal Freezing 'Dance' of Nanoscale Drops

Researchers Use Smallest Pipette to Reveal Freezing 'Dance' of Nanoscale Drops

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 15, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Using what is thought to be the world’s smallest pipette, two researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that tiny droplets of liquid metal freeze much differently ...


Molten Proteins: Surface-modified liquid protein with liquid-crystalline properties

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins are solids. When heated they do not melt; instead, they decompose or sublime directly to the gas phase at low pressures. They cannot be converted into a liquid form unless they are dissolved in a ...


Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse

Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (34) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- For several years, physicists have known that liquid columns can be used to guide light. By trapping a light beam, a liquid column can act like an optical fiber, but with a liquid sheathing ...



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