News tagged with surface layer
Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals (w/Animation)
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's ...
Scientists find cause of cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis
Jan 12, 2009 |
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The scientists describe their work in this week's Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the study, the team shows how the loss of the protein HMGB2, found in the surface layer of joint ...
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Making bacteria make useful proteins
Sep 07, 2009 |
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By adapting a single protein on the surface of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, researchers at the University of British Columbia have turned it into a protein production factory, making useful proteins that can act as ...
Proteins in gel
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Biochips carrying thousands of DNA fragments are widely used for examining genetic material. Experts would also like to have biochips on which proteins are anchored. This requires a gel layer which can now ...
Ice Gets Bent Out of Shape
Sep 09, 2009 |
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For the first time, scientists have built completely flat, two-layer ice. While theoreticians have predicted that such ices are formed by squeezing water molecules between two surfaces, scientists at Pacific ...
Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS ...
Self-healing surfaces
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 03, 2009 |
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The engineers' dream of self-healing surfaces has taken another step towards becoming reality -- researchers have produced a electroplated layer that contains tiny nanometer-sized capsules. If the layer is ...
Researchers grow nanowire crystals for 3-D microchips
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a method of stacking and purifying crystal layers that may pave the way for three-dimensional microchips.
Nocturnal wind maximum mapped for first time
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 05, 2009 |
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On beautiful, sunny days with quiet weather conditions a strong wind develops in the evening at a height of about 200 metres.
Solving Teapot Effect
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from France have worked out why teapots dribble at low flow rates, and how to stop them. The effect is called the "teapot effect", and solving it could finally put an ...
Building better bone replacements with bacteria
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Bacteria that manufacture hydroxyapatite (HA) could be used to make stronger, more durable bone implants. Professor Lynne Macaskie from the University of Birmingham this week (7-10 September) presented work to the Society ...
Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 07, 2009 |
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There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic.
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