News tagged with nonpolar molecules
Nanosensor Arrays 'Smell' Cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006 researchers established that dogs could detect cancer by sniffing the exhaled breath of cancer patients. Now, using nanoscale arrays of detectors, two groups of investigators have shown that a compact ...
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Researchers Provide Evidence of How Proteins Fold
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Sep 01, 2006 |
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Experimental evidence provided by a Cornell researcher and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., support a long-held theory of how and where proteins fold to create their characteristic ...
Emulsion with a round-trip ticket
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Oil and water are not miscible. However, it is possible to combine both into an emulsion in which they act as a unit—for example, in creams, body lotion, milk, or mayonnaise. In these substances, one of the two liquids is ...
Scientists track remarkable 'breathing' in nanoporous materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Scientists all over the world are participating in the quest of new materials with properties suitable for the environmentally friendly and economically feasible separation, recovery, and reuse of vapours and ...
How water forms where Earth-like planets are born
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that helps to explain the origins of water on Earth, University of Michigan astronomers have found that water vapor can form spontaneously in habitable zones of solar systems, and that it develops ...
In touch with molecules
Nov 12, 2009 |
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The performance of modern electronics increases steadily on a fast pace thanks to the ongoing miniaturization of the utilized components. However, se-vere problems arise due to quantum-mechanical phenomena ...
Precious metal gets picky
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 10, 2006 |
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Not only jewelry-loving ladies but also scientists and technologists are fascinated by gold–particularly in the form of the smallest clumps imaginable.
Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water
Nov 20, 2009 |
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A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this week's Journal of Biological Chemistry, resear ...
Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "For years, we have been using laser cooling to trap and manipulate atoms," David DeMille tells PhysOrg.com. "This has been very useful for both basic science and many applications. Recent ...
New material brings hydrogen fuel, cheaper petrochemicals closer to reality
Feb 02, 2006 |
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A rubbery material that can purify hydrogen efficiently in its most usable form for fuel cells and oil refining has been developed by a chemical engineering group at The University of Texas at Austin.
Ice Cold: Cooler Than Being Cool
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Water expands when it freezes. Anyone who has ever left a can of soda or bottle of water in the freezer too long has witnessed this first hand. So how do plants and animals survive severe ...
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