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Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ...





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Controlling the size of nanoclusters

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ...


Peanut-Shaped Nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 22, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Tiny acorns that fuse together in pairs to form miniature peanuts – Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing peanut-shaped nanoparticles comprised of two different sulfur-containing substances. The ends of the “peanuts” ...


Secret ingredient for the health of tropical rainforests found

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 2

A team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists has found for the first time that tropical rainforests, a vital part of the Earth's ecosystem, rely on the rare trace element molybdenum to capture the nitrogen ...


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Scientists discover clue to 2 billion year delay of life on Earth

Biology /

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (73) | comments 4

Scientists from around the world have reconstructed changes in Earth’s ancient ocean chemistry during a broad sweep of geological time, from about 2.5 to 0.5 billion years ago. They have discovered that a ...


Treating heart failure with a gas

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

At low concentrations, the toxic gas hydrogen sulfide protects the hearts of mice from heart failure, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found.


Freshly crushed garlic better for the heart than processed

Freshly crushed garlic better for the heart than processed

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study reports what scientists term the first scientific evidence that freshly crushed garlic has more potent heart-healthy effects than dried garlic. Scheduled for the Aug. 12 issue of the Journal of ...


New method for manufacturing radio isotopes

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This is the message from Prof. Bert Wolterbeek ...


Lake Research That Isn't All Wet

Lake Research That Isn't All Wet

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western lakes.


Halting methane squanderlust

Chemistry /

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (24) | comments 3

The pipes that rise from oil fields, topped with burning flames of natural gas, waste fossil fuels and dump carbon dioxide into the air. In new work, researchers have identified the structure of a catalytic material that ...


New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution ...



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