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Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...


Life Sticks: Bioengineer Publishes Sticky Insights in journal Science

Life Sticks: Bioengineer Publishes Sticky Insights in journal Science

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sticky is good. A University of California, San Diego bioengineer is the first author on an article in the journal Science that provides insights on the “stickiness of life.” The big idea i ...


Scientists build 'roach motel' for nasty bugs of the bacterial variety

Chemistry /

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The vacancy sign is on, but the lowlifes who check in never check out. Scientists at the University of Florida and the University of New Mexico have created tiny microscopic spheres that trap and kill harmful bacteria in ...


World’s First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces Built

World’s First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces Built

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level to engineer ...


MO-SCI to manufacture SRNL's unique porous walled hollow glass microspheres

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corporation will make SRNL's unique Porous Walled Hollow Glass Microspheres available ...