News tagged with solution


Researcher has uncovered a way to provide antioxidant-rich water in a bottle

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Health-conscious consumers know the benefits of eating high-antioxidant foods like fruits, vegetables, beans and nuts. A University of Georgia researcher has uncovered a way to provide antioxidant-rich water ...


Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.


White glow: Dye-doped DNA nanofibers emit white light

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Efficient energy transport plays an important role in the development of optoelectonic materials. The true masters of energy transfer via a hierarchical arrangement of different molecules are the photosynthetic ...


Singaporean scientists conduct world's first remote X-ray scattering experiment

Physics / General Physics

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

On 26th May, Nanyang Technological University's School of Biological Science (SBS) will pioneer the world's first remotely controlled Solution X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) experiment. The experiment will be initiated from Singapore ...


Going platinum: New catalyst could boost cleaner fuel use

Going platinum: New catalyst could boost cleaner fuel use

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Material scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a technique for a bimetallic fuel cell catalyst that is efficient, robust and two to five times more effective than ...


Ethanol vs. Electricity

Ethanol vs. Electricity: Biomass converted into electricity could be more efficient than ethanol (w/Video)

Technology / Energy

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Concerns over petroleum gas prices and long-term effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the environment have prompted scientists to look for alternative renewable energy sources for transportation ...


Carbon nanotubes and the environment

Carbon nanotubes and the environment

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes have made a meteoric career in the past 15 years, even if their applications are still limited. Recent research results show that - apart from their favorable mechanical and electrical properties ...


Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The speed at which heat moves between two materials touching each other is a potent indicator of how strongly they are bonded to each other, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer ...


New method for magnetic manipulation of cells

New method for magnetic manipulation of cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic technology could help address a major problem that bioengineers face as they try to create new tissue: getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth ...


New 'smart' homes for dementia sufferers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Within five years innovative 'smart' sensing systems that will help the UK's 700,000 dementia sufferers live independently at home could be available commercially.


What are the Chances? Probability Solves an Evolutionary Puzzle

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 7

The origin of species may be almost as random as a throw of the dice. Iosif Pinelis, a professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University, has worked out a mathematical solution to a biological puzzle: ...


'Gravity fingers'

Researchers explain mystery of gravity fingers

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn't soak into soil at an even rate, but instead forms what look ...


First antenna-in-package solution for single-chip 60 GHz radio

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With the rising demand for low-cost, small-size, high-speed, highly functional and high volume wireless communications, the development of highly-integrated 60 GHz radio chipsets in semiconductor technology have received ...


Noble metal nanoparticles deposit on the mycelium of growing fungi--an approach to new catalytic systems?

Chemistry /

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- When fungi, such as penicillium, grow, they form a thread-like network, the mycelium. If the fungus is grown in a medium containing nanoscopic particles of a noble metal, the resulting mycelium is coated ...


Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (50) | comments 0

In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a reco ...



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