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New Graphene-Based Material Help Solve Structure of Graphite Oxide

A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and production, and transportation such as airplanes and cars has been created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

26 Sep 2008

New Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry Center Aims to Unravel Molecular Complexities of Biological Systems

Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify, quantify and locate the molecules present in the samples.

26 Sep 2008

New Research May Be Key Step Towards Real-World Uses of MOFs

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks (MOF). In MOF materials, metal ions can be connected by organic molecules to form scaffold...

26 Sep 2008

NSF Funded Center Explores the Physics of Biological Systems

The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center for the Physics of Living Cells is one of nine Physics ...

25 Sep 2008

Demands From Pharmaceutical Operations Drive Development of Chemical Identification

Ahura Scientific, Inc., a leader in rugged, ultra-compact handheld instruments for chemical identification, today announced that it has launched TruScan(TM) 1.2 at INTERPHEX in Montréal, Canada. TruScan 1.2 enables ...

24 Sep 2008

MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering Wins Six-Year $19.2 Million NSF Grant

Amid an increasingly challenging federal funding environment, MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) has won a six-year, $19.2 million National Science Foundation grant that will support research, ...

24 Sep 2008

eBioscience Expands Portfolio with Introduction of eFluor Nanocrystals Product Line

eBioscience Corporation, a leading global provider of innovative high quality cell analysis reagents, announced today the expansion of its multicolor cellular analysis portfolio with the introduction of its eFluor(TM) br...

23 Sep 2008

New Technology Enables Scientists to Identify Proteins Inside Cells

A new technology which enables scientists to identify proteins by making a map of the energy flow inside the protein is revealed today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal. The scientists...

23 Sep 2008

Transport Properties of Organic Conductors Strictly Connected to Internal Geometry of Crystals

Recent findings by a team of researchers from Japan and the United Kingdom could prove essential in explaining the origin of superconductivity in organic materials*, and pave the way for the development of new organic materials. The origin of superconductivity has been attributed to magnetic interactions, but this has never been fully accepted because some non-magnetic insulators can become superconducting.

19 Sep 2008

Researchers Uncovered Fundamentals of Insulating Behavior of Nickel Oxide

Owing to its simplicity in chemical composition and crystal structure, nickel oxide (NiO) is a model system for the understanding of a whole family of oxide compounds. However, even for such as basic two-atom compound the physics governing its physical properties can be rather complex. Indeed, a detailed fundamental understanding as to why this basic oxide is insulating rather than conductive has eluded physicists since the 1930s. Now researchers from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima have uncovered the fundamentals of the material's insulating behavior.

19 Sep 2008