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Silicon Micro-islands and Nano-spikes Channel Water on Glass Slides

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed ...





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Shape shifters: Researchers create new breed of antennas

Shape shifters: Researchers create new breed of antennas

Technology / Engineering

created 7 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Antennas aren't just for listening to the radio anymore. They're used in everything from cell phones to GPS devices. Research from North Carolina State University is revolutionizing the field of antenna design ...


Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon

Chemistry / Materials Science

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 5

In a world first, a Monash University-led international research team has developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells.


Security ID cards with built-in holograms

Security ID cards with built-in holograms (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic cards with security features are ubiquitous these days, having a wide variety of uses such as credit cards, employee cards, licenses, and so on. Many have holographic images, but they ...


Nanoimaging in 3-D

Nanoimaging in 3-D

Physics / General Physics

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. ...


Grant to help zoo visitors learn more about science with their cell phones

Technology / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zoo visitors may soon use their cell phones to "Call the Wild" as part of a project led by University of Florida researchers to help the public learn more about the nature of science.


Rocket test will carry Purdue experiment

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC.


Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules.


INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

Technology / Energy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 5

As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research ...


Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria don’t have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.


Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge UK research.



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