News tagged with metal organic


Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 14

In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from ...


Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...





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Dutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have succeeded in making the first ever piece of chiral palladium metal. The findings, by a research team led by Gadi Rothenberg, professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable ...


Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.


Hankering for molecular electronics? Grab the new NIST sandwich

Hankering for molecular electronics? Grab the new NIST sandwich

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may prove tasty for computer chip designers, who have long had an appetite for molecule-sized ...


New method to efficiently produce less toxic drugs using organic molecules

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)'s Associate Professor Zhong Guofu has made a significant contribution to the field of organic chemistry, in particular the study of using small organic molecules as catalysts, in the ...


Research helps understand factors that influence efficiency of organic-based devices

Research helps understand factors that influence efficiency of organic-based devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Organic-based devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes, require a transparent conductive layer with a high work function, meaning it promotes injection of electron holes into an organic layer to produce ...


Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures

Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1

For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.


In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2

For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.


Safer, denser acetylene storage in an organic framework

Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A NIST research ...


Scientists study a magnetic makeover

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 17, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Victoria have discovered new lightweight magnets that could be used in making everything from extra-thin magnetic computer memory to ultra-light spacecraft parts. A paper on the study will ...


Precious Metal Crystals

New metal crystals, formed on a cotton assembly line

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components ...



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