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Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...





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Physicists discover novel electronic properties in two-dimensional carbon structure

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Rutgers researchers have discovered novel electronic properties in two-dimensional sheets of carbon atoms called graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices.


A 'New Dimension' at the LHC

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (86) | comments 28

(PhysOrg.com) -- Later this year, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, will begin operating, sending beams of protons hurling around circular tracks ...


Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics

Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 11, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (198) | comments 0

Howard Georgi, a physicist at Harvard University, has recently published a paper on so-called unparticle physics, which suggests the existence of “unparticle stuff” that cannot be accounted for by the standard ...


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Einstein's relativity theory proven with the 'lead' of a pencil

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created Nov 09, 2005 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (44) | comments 0

Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a new way to test Einstein's theory of relativity using the 'lead' of a pencil.


Nonlocality of a Single Particle Demonstrated Without Objections

Nonlocality of a Single Particle Demonstrated Without Objections

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (151) | comments 33

Usually when physicists talk about nonlocality in quantum mechanics, they’re referring to the fact that two particles can have immediate effects on each other, even when separated by large distances. Einstein ...


Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor ...


Electrostatic surface cleaning

Electrostatic surface cleaning

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should ...


Nano-sandwich Triggers Novel Electron Behavior

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A material just six atoms thick in which electrons appear to be guided by conflicting laws of physics depending on their direction of travel has been discovered by a team of physicists at the University of ...


Physicists Build Unparticle Models Guided by Big Bang and Supernovae

Physicists Build Unparticle Models Guided by Big Bang and Supernovae

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 17, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (65) | comments 4

Cosmology and astrophysics may help guide physicists in building a model of “unparticles,” a newly proposed sector of physics. Recently, Hooman Davoudiasl of Brookhaven National Laboratory has investigated ...


Tracing ultra-fine dust

Tracing ultra-fine dust

Technology / Engineering

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

Limit values for fine dust emissions are based on total particle weight. It is the ultra-fine particles, however, that are particularly harmful to health. A new technique separates them by size and identifies ...



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