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Materials Scientists Found New Use for Chemical Compound Traditionally Viewed as Electrical Conductor

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it.

9 Nov 2009

Combining Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques Shedding New Light on Tungstated Zirconia Catalyst

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities. I...

9 Nov 2009

A Marvel of Technology - The Large Hadron Collider

Inside an insulating vacuum chamber in a tunnel about 100 meters below the surface of the Franco-Swiss plain near Geneva, packets of protons whirl around the 27-km diameter of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a speed c...

9 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Researchers Making Self-Cleaning Materials Based on Insect Wings

Researchers in Australia and the UK are flying the idea that insect wings could act as a model for making self-cleaning, frictionless, and superhydrophobic materials. They discuss the latest developments in their laboratories in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing.

9 Nov 2009

Physicists Discover Previously Unknown Metallic Features of High-Temperature Superconductors

At the High-Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD) at Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) highest magnetic fields are to be used for material research. Here physicists from the Walther-Meißner-Institute of the Bavar...

9 Nov 2009

ACS's Award-Winning Magazine Making its YouTube Debut

The American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning high school chemistry magazine ChemMatters is making its YouTube debut with its first video podcast.

From American Chemical Society 8 Nov 2009

New Approach for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries using Nanotechnology

Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries using nano-spheres that could be injected into the blood shortly after an accident. The synth...

8 Nov 2009

Computers Making Accurate Predictions of Reactions Between Molecules and Surfaces

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces. An international team of researchers, headed ...

6 Nov 2009

UCSC Professor Appointed Co-Director of Advanced Studies Laboratory

Nobuhiko Kobayashi, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed co-director of the Advanced Studies Laboratory (ASL), a collaborative research facility jointly administered by UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center.

6 Nov 2009

German Chemists Making Progress on the Road to Achieving Artificial Photosynthesis

Imitating photosynthesis in plants? If we were to accomplish this, mankind would have a little less to worry about. Chemists from the University of Würzburg have now made progress on the road to achieving artificial...

6 Nov 2009