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A crystal clear view of chalk formation

A crystal clear view of chalk formation

Chemistry /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...





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Scientists find new set of multiferroic materials

Scientists find new set of multiferroic materials

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The trail to a new multiferroic started with the theories of a U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist and ended with a multidisciplinary collaboration that created ...


Truth Is Stranger Than Science

Truth Is Stranger Than Science: Discovering true properties of metal oxides

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- To successfully compete in a global marketplace, manufacturers continually search for better materials: faster drying and less hazardous paint, longer-lasting sunscreen, and faster computers. ...


Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life ...


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 ...


ORMatE returns to NRL after nearly 2 years in Earth orbit

ORMatE returns to NRL after nearly 2 years in Earth orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Completing an 18-month mission orbiting the Earth more than 6,000 times on-orbit the International Space Station (ISS), the Optical Reflector Material Experiment (ORMatE-1) returns to Washington, D.C., to ...


New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions have developed a new "plasmonic nanorod metamaterial" using extraordinarily tiny rods of gold that will have important applications in medical, biological and ...


Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...


Computation helps predict heat transfer in diamond

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | 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.


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 4.9 / 5 (8) | 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 ...


Micromuscles: Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid-crystal Elastomers (w/ Video)

Micromuscles: Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid-crystal Elastomers (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

To move your arm or leg, certain muscles need to change shape, to either lengthen or contract. Now scientists have made liquid-crystalline particles that can change shape in a similar way, but which are only ...



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