
Environmental Fate Of Nanoparticles Depends On Properties Of Water Carrying Them
The fate of carbon-based
nanoparticles spilled into
groundwater -- and the
ability of municipal
filtration systems to remove
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Melting Defects Could Lead To Smaller, More Powerful Microchips
As microchips shrink, even
tiny defects in the lines,
dots and other shapes etched
on them become major
barriers to performance.
Princeton engineers have now
... > full story

Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Liquids Adjust Viscosity When Confined, Shaken
Getting ketchup out of the
bottle isn't always easy.
However, shaking the bottle
before trying to pour allows
the thick, gooey ketchup to
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Skating Beads Of Water: Chemists Reproduce The Rose's 'Petal Effect'
The lotus flower is nature's
"slip n' slide," where water
beads skate along each
petal's surface like liquid
metal. Now, chemists reveal
... > full story
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Engineers Discover Theoretical Model To Predict Jamming
April 28, 2008 Researchers have come up with a theoretical model to predict when granular materials become jammed. This advancement not only broadens fundamental knowledge, it also provides new avenues to a number ... > full story -
First-class Protein Crystals Thanks To Weightlessness On Earth
April 24, 2008 A Dutch chemist has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions. If the crystals are grown upside down in a strong magnetic field, fluid ... > full story -
Self-assembling Method Could Lead To Inexpensive Diamond-like Crystals For Technology
April 23, 2008 Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamondlike crystals to improve optical communications and other ... > full story -
Water Needed To Produce Various Types Of Energy
April 22, 2008 It is easy to overlook that most of the energy we consume daily, such as electricity or natural gas, is produced with the help of a dwindling resource -- fresh water. Scientists are researching the ... > full story -
Making Environmentally Friendly Plastics
April 21, 2008 Every year, more than 30 billion water bottles are added to America's landfills, creating a mountainous environmental problem. But if new research is successful, the plastic bottles of the future ... > full story -
'Nanodrop' Test Tubes Created With A Flip Of A Switch
April 18, 2008 Researchers have demonstrated a new device that creates nanodroplet "test tubes" for studying individual proteins under conditions that mimic the crowded confines of a living ... > full story -
Scientists Probe Water's Mysterious Interactions At Molecular Level
April 17, 2008 Some of the most challenging problems in science concern the behavior of the most commonplace compound on the planet's surface -- water. But some of the mysteries are now being unravelled by the ... > full story -
Nanotechnology In Environment: Citrate Appears To Control Buckyball Clumping But Environmental Concerns Remain
April 11, 2008 Fullerenes, also fondly known as buckyballs, are showing an ugly side. It appears that the hydrophobic, or water hating, carbon molecules clump together in water, forming aggregates of thousands of ... > full story -
How Things Get Wet: New Mathematical Formula Sets Wetting Theory Straight
April 9, 2008 The relationship between a thin liquid film or drop of liquid and the shape of the surface that it wets is explained with a new simplified mathematical formula. Understanding the precise interaction ... > full story -
Herding Nano-particles Into Precise Lattices Could Be Basis For Improved Tissue Engineering
April 8, 2008 Researchers are developing a manufacturing strategy that could improve technologies used in tissue engineering and information ... > full story
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