News tagged with transparent

Is third party funding effectively regulated in the UK?

A study shows that the market for litigation funding, otherwise known as third party funding, is firmly established for commercial disputes in the UK and is extending into cases involving ordinary citizens, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BASF, Philips develop OLED lighting for use as transparent car roof

(PhysOrg.com) -- BASF and Philips have achieved a practical breakthrough in the development of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology that allows it to be integrated in car roofs. The OLEDs are transparent ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover transparency limits on transparent conducting oxides

Researchers in the Computational Materials Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have uncovered the fundamental limits on optical transparency in the class of materials known as transparent ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bowing to pressure, Beijing begins hourly smog data

Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater government transparency over pollution in China's capital.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Facebook agrees to changes to improve transparency

(AP) -- Facebook Inc. has agreed to make several changes to its services to improve transparency and better protect the personal data of its millions of users outside of the U.S., following an in-depth audit of its international ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monitoring food with millimeter waves

Has the packet been properly filled? Are there impurities in the chocolate? Have the plastic seams been welded correctly? Is there a knife hidden in the parcel? Answers to all these questions are provided ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent

A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Team develops highly efficient method for creating flexible, transparent electrodes

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New website seeks to hold journalists accountable

A Wikipedia-style website launched on Monday which provides information about the journalists behind the bylines.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stretchable graphene transistors overcome limitations of other materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to fabricating stretchable, transparent electronics, finding a material to make transistors from has been a significant challenge for researchers. They've explored a variety ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

One in five medical journal articles include honorary and ghost authors

Just over one in five (21%) of articles published in six leading medical journals in 2008 have evidence of honorary and ghost authorship, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor (w/ video)

Imagine having skin so supple you could stretch it out to more than twice its normal length in any direction - repeatedly - yet it would always snap back completely wrinkle-free when you let go of it. You ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers use carbon nanotubes to make solar cells affordable, flexible

Researchers from Northwestern University have developed a carbon-based material that could revolutionize the way solar power is harvested. The new solar cell material – a transparent conductor made of carbon nanotubes ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists get first detailed look at nitrogen doping in single-layer graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- The strength, flexibility, transparency and high electrical conductivity of single-layer graphene make it a potentially unique and valuable material for the next generation of electronic devices. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ions control shape of nanofibers grown on clear substrate

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a new way to develop straight carbon nanofibers on a transparent substrate. Growing such nanofiber coatings is important for use in novel biomedical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast