Physical Chemistry News

Posted February 10, 2012:

• New Method for Creating Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Posted February 9, 2012:

• Seismic Resistance: Model Analyzes Shape-Memory Alloys for Use in Earthquake-Resistant Structures
• Nanotube Therapy Takes Aim at Breast Cancer Stem Cells

Posted February 8, 2012:

• 'Shish Kebab' Structure Provides Improved Form of 'Buckypaper'

Posted February 7, 2012:

• Hard Drive Breakthrough: New Magnetic Recording Technique Uses Heat to Process Information Much Faster Than Current Technology

Posted February 1, 2012:

• Nano-Oils Keep the Electronic Devices Really Cool

Posted January 30, 2012:

• Chirality of a Nanotube Controls Growth: Armchair Nanotubes Grow Fastest

Posted January 25, 2012:

• Injecting Sulfate Particles Into Stratosphere Won't Fully Offset Climate Change

Posted January 23, 2012:

• Graphene 'Invisible' to Water: How the Extreme Thinness of Graphene Enables Near-Perfect Wetting Transparency

Posted January 22, 2012:

• Hyperthermia Treatment of Cancer Using Magnetic Nanoparticles
• Superconductivity Success in Fullerene Nanowhiskers

Posted January 18, 2012:

• Breast Cancer Cells Targeted, Then Burned, by Gold-Filled Silicon Wafers

Posted January 16, 2012:

• New System Optimizes the Performance and Fuel Consumption of Engines Operating at Altitude, Through Laboratory Tests

Posted January 13, 2012:

• Perfectly Spherical Gold Nanodroplets Produced With the Smallest-Ever Nanojets

Posted January 10, 2012:

• Quick-Cooking Nanomaterials in Microwave to Make Tomorrow's Air Conditioners

Posted January 9, 2012:

• Theory Explains How New Material Could Improve Electronic Shelf Life
• Keeping Electronics Cool: Findings on Modified Form of Graphene Could Have Impacts in Managing Heat Dissipation

Posted January 4, 2012:

• New Technology Removes Air Pollutants, May Reduce Energy Use in Animal Agricultural Facilities

Posted December 21, 2011:

• New Material Cools Under Pressure

Posted December 20, 2011:

• Boron Nanoribbons Reveal Surprising Thermal Properties in Bundles

Posted December 19, 2011:

• Researchers Measure Nanometer Scale Temperature
• Nanotechnology: Nanomechanical Measurements of Unprecedented Resolution Made on Protein Molecules

Posted December 14, 2011:

• New Method for Enhancing Thermal Conductivity Could Cool Computer Chips, Lasers and Other Devices

Posted December 12, 2011:

• Jumping Droplets Take a Lot of Heat, as Long as It Comes in a Cool Way

Posted December 11, 2011:

• World's Smallest Steam Engine: Heat Engine Measuring Only a Few Micrometers Works as Well as Its Larger Counterpart, Although It Sputters

Posted December 7, 2011:

• One of the World's Smallest Electronic Circuits Created
• Study Finds Failure Points in Firefighter Protective Equipment

Posted December 2, 2011:

• Cheap Beads Offer Alternative Solar-Heating Storage

Posted November 30, 2011:

• Controlled Disorder: Scientists Find Way to Form Random Molecular Patterns

Posted November 23, 2011:

• Supercool: Water Doesn't Have to Freeze Until -48 C (-55 F)

Posted November 21, 2011:

• Measuring Living Cells' Mechanical Properties: Technology Could Diagnose Human Disease, Shed Light on Biological Processes
• NASA Develops New Game-Changing Technology

Posted November 18, 2011:

• New Revolutionary Material Can Be Worked Like Glass

Posted November 14, 2011:

• Robot Speeds Up Glass Development

Posted November 10, 2011:

• Using Light, Researchers Convert 2-D Patterns Into 3-D Objects
• Researching Graphene Nanoelectronics for a Post-Silicon World

Posted November 9, 2011:

• Weird World of Water Gets a Little Weirder
• Converting Waste Heat Into Electricity

Posted November 8, 2011:

• NASA Develops Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands
• Can Metals Remember Their Shape at Nanoscale, Too?

Posted November 7, 2011:

• Incredible Shrinking Material: Engineers Reveal How Scandium Trifluoride Contracts With Heat
• Secrets of Tunneling Through Energy Barriers: How Massless Electrons Tunnel Through Energy Barriers in a Carbon Sheet Called Graphene

Posted November 3, 2011:

• Hybrid Power Plants Can Help Industry Go Green: Affordable Solar Option for Power Plants

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Solar Power Could Get Boost from New Light Absorption Design

Posted October 25, 2011:

• Geothermal Mapping Report Confirms Vast Coast-to-Coast Clean Energy Source in U.S.

Posted October 24, 2011:

• Magnetic Nanoswitch for Thermoelectric Voltages

Posted October 20, 2011:

• Giant Flakes Make Graphene Oxide Gel: Discovery Could Boost Metamaterials, High-Strength Fibers

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Improving the Physics of Grocery Store Display Cases to Save Energy

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