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Filament of silver

Super atoms turn the periodic table upside down

Chemistry /

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (101) | comments 12

Researchers at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms ...


xerox ink

Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...


Inequality, 'silver spoon' effect found in ancient societies

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 22

The so-called "silver spoon" effect -- in which wealth is passed down from one generation to another -- is well established in some of the world's most ancient economies, according to an international study coordinated by ...


New silver nanoparticle skin gel for healing burns

New silver nanoparticle skin gel for healing burns

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Scientists in India are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections. With names like silver ...


Silver nanoparticles show 'immense potential' in prevention of blood clots

Silver nanoparticles show 'immense potential' in prevention of blood clots

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Scientists are reporting discovery of a potential new alternative to aspirin, ReoPro, and other anti-platelet agents used widely to prevent blood clots in coronary artery disease, heart attack and stroke. ...


Nanoscale silver: No silver lining?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research priorities ...


Silver Nanoparticle Mirror

Beaming new light on life: From beetles to aircraft, nanoparticles aid microscope views

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah physicists and chemists developed a new method that uses a mirror of tiny silver "nanoparticles" so microscopes can reveal the internal structure of nearly opaque biological ...


An exquisite container

Smart drug delivery system -- Gold nanocage covered with polymer (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In campy old movies, Lucretia Borgia swans around emptying powder from her ring into wine glasses carelessly left unattended. The poison ring is usually a confection of gold filigree holding a cabochon or ...


New approach to wound healing may be easy on skin, but hard on bacteria

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In a presentation today (Aug. 19) to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take ...


New silver-based ink has applications in printed electronics

New silver-based ink has applications in printed electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ink developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows them to write their own silver linings.


Antimicrobials: Silver (and copper) bullets to kill bacteria

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dana Filoti of the University of New Hampshire will present thin films of silver and copper she has developed that can kill bacteria and may one day help to cut down on hospital infections. The antimicrobial properties of ...


Nanophysics: Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter

Nanophysics: Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 - carbon buckyballs - on a silver ...


Knocking nanoparticles off the socks

Knocking nanoparticles off the socks

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market. Their findings, scheduled ...


Surgical Implants Coated with One of "Nature's Antibiotics" Could Prevent Infection

Chemistry /

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered a mimic of one of "nature's antibiotics" that can be used to coat medical devices to prevent infection and rejection.


New light shed on marine luminescence

New light shed on marine luminescence

Biology /

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The phenomenon of light emission by living organisms, bioluminescence, is quite common, especially in marine species. It is known that light is generated by chemical reactions in which oxygen molecules play ...