News tagged with nature chemistry
Molecules wrestle for supremacy in creation of superstructures
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures.
One Sponge-Like Material, Three Different Applications
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new sponge-like material that is black, brittle and freeze-dried (just like the ice cream astronauts eat) can pull off some pretty impressive feats. Designed by Northwestern University chemists, it can ...
Enabling graphene-based technology via chemical functionalization
May 17, 2009 |
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Graphene is an atomically thin sheet of carbon that has attracted significant attention due to its potential use in high-performance electronics, sensors and alternative energy devices such as solar cells. While the physics ...
A sticky business -- how cancer cells become more 'gloopy' as they die
Mar 15, 2009 |
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The viscosity, or 'gloopiness', of different parts of cancer cells increases dramatically when they are blasted with light-activated cancer drugs, according to new images that provide fundamental insights into how cancer ...
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World first as scientists grow microtubes from crystals (Video)
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a world-first, scientists at the University of Glasgow have grown micro-tube structures from crystals of inorganic compounds.
New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 13, 2009 |
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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 ...
Why leave it to nature? Chemistry professor wants to understand, simplify, photosynthesis
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Amid calls for transformative change in the world’s energy supply, Harvard chemist Ted Betley is taking a back-to-basics approach and examining the mother of all energy supplies -- photosynthesis ...
Researchers develop new platinum-based anti-tumor compound
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in collaboration with colleagues at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new class of platinum-based ...
Cash register receipts a new BPA concern
Oct 12, 2009 |
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If you read environmental news on a regular basis then you know that consumers are in an uproar about the revelation that SIGG water bottles contain bisphenol-A (BPA), despite the company's previous BPA-free advertisements. ...
Analysis confirms that nano-related research has strong multidisciplinary roots
Sep 07, 2009 |
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The burgeoning research fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology are commonly thought to be highly multidisciplinary because they draw on many areas of science and technology to make important advances.
Dutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal
Apr 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
Red-hot research could lead to new materials
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent experiments to create a fast-reacting explosive by concocting it at the nanoscopic level could result in more spectacular firework displays. But more impressive to the Missouri University ...
A molecular ripcord for chemical reactions
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) have developed an entirely new method for starting chemical reactions. For the first time they used mechanical forces to control catalytic ...
Unexpected amber find rewrites botanical history
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unexpected discovery made by Macquarie University PhD student Sargent Bray about the origin and nature of chemical compounds contained in ancient amber has changed our understanding of ...
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