News tagged with transition state

Searching for a solid that flows like a liquid

(PhysOrg.com) -- A series of neutron scattering experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other research centers is exploring the key question about a long-sought quantum state of matter called supersolidity: ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Scientists study protein dynamical transitions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Central to life and all cellular functions, proteins are complex structures that are anything but static, though often illustrated as two-dimensional snapshots in time.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How diamonds emerge from graphite

Scientists have used a new method to precisely simulate the phase transition from graphite to diamond for the first time. Instead of happening concerted, all at once, the conversion evidently takes place in ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Size matters in crucial redox reactions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Particle size has a far more dramatic impact on chemical reactivity than previously thought, according to new research from UC Davis. The results have implications for understanding a wide range of vital ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Stretched molecule ends up shorter than it started (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Crazy bands are cool because no matter how long they've been stretched around a kid's wrist, they always return to their original shape, be it a lion or a kangaroo.

Chemistry / Polymers

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Roller coaster superconductivity discovered

Superconductors are more than 150 times more efficient at carrying electricity than copper wires. However, to attain the superconducting state, these materials have to be cooled below an extremely low, so-called ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 8

Of traffic jams, beach sands and the zero-temperature jamming transition

Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0