Physics research with atomic force microscope could lead to better health care
...t if scientists can pattern the surface in the way they like, another application might be tiny electric circuits and lenses that guide, respectively, electrons and photons. Also, using an atomic force microscope in this way, he said, physicists can not only change the chemical properties of the surface but th...ORNL finding could help electronics industry enter new phase
... used for piezoactuators, memory devices and RFID (radio-frequency identification) cards. "It is as if we open a tiny door in the polar surface for electrons to enter," Maksymovych said. "The size of this door is less than one-millionth of an inch, and it is very likely taking only one-billionth of a second...Stanford researchers harness nanoparticles to track cancer-cell changes
... comprising wavelengths slightly different from the single-color beams that lasers emit. These patterns, or Raman signals, occur when energy levels of electrons are just barely modified by weak interactions among the constituent atoms in the molecule being inspected. Raman signals are emitted all the time b...K-State engineers create DNA sensors that could identify cancer using material only one atom thick
...e most significant feature of graphene is that the electrons can travel without interruptions at speeds close t... about 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit -- to get electrons to move at ultra high speeds." One of Berry's developments is a graphene-based DNA sensor. When electrons flow on the graphene, they change speed if they en...April Rain is Protecting Skin with The Launch of Day Rainew
...e radicals are everywhere and are a key component to aging. These unpaired electrons get into cells, causing damage over time and ultimately degenerate natural ...l free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) into thinking their outer electrons are paired - ending their vicious cell-damaging cycle. Antioxidants tak...Scripps research scientists develop general-purpose method for detecting trace chemicals
...ving and storing electronic charges in logical circuits. These same basic operations can also be accomplished biologically, using molecules instead of electrons as the basis of the logical circuitry. Self-replicating RNAs that are triggered by target chemicals could provide the functional basis for some of the...Molecular imaging enables earlier, individualized treatment of thyroid cancer
...up by any thyroid tissue not removed by surgery, including cancerous cells spreading to other body parts, such as lymph nodes. In addition to emitting electrons that destroy the tissue harboring the radionuclide, radioactive iodine emits photons suitable for imaging. "Normal thyroid tissue as well as residu...Young voters challenge presidential candidates to address science issues
...udent Pugwash USA's website, www.spusa.org . Student Pugwash USA sponsored the contest as part of the organization's 2008 election resource, From electrons to Elections. The online guide, available at www.spusa.org/2008vote , is a non-partisan resource designed to educate young voters on science, techno...Battelle Scientists Named on Patent for Making Oxygen From Light and Water
...which a PDEC device could make oxygen. In order to work, PDEC relies on a photochemical reaction that uses a special catalyst that takes protons and electrons from water and makes molecular oxygen without producing hydrogen gas. Then, the protons and electrons can be used for other purposes, such as trapping...QuantiFIRE 4-Megapixel Thermoelectrically-Cooled Digital Microscope Camera
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...The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) will soon begin operation at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, using energetic electrons from a linear accelerator to produce coherent x-rays with an instrument called a free electron laser (FEL). The x-rays will be delivered 120 times a s...Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers
...for this purpose. As transistors have shrunk, however, they have been forced to make this layer thinner and thinner until they reached the point where electrons leak through and sap the power from the device. This has led semiconductor manufacturers to retool their process to use "high-k" dielectric materials,...Sulphur in just one hair could blow a terrorist's alibi
...f Oviedo, Spain, have come up with a method to detect how the proportions of isotopes in a chemical element (atoms with an equal number of protons and electrons but different numbers of neutrons) vary throughout the length of a single hair. The mid-term objective is to be able to use these methods to track the...Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics
...t technology, which sometimes goes by the name "streak camera." Because the electrons comprising the beam are charged particles, the signals they carry suffer un...ge, 3000:1. In his camera, the beam being deflected consists not of charged electrons but of uncharged photons, which do not suffer from the limitations of conve...Milestone in live microscopy focus of $2 million NIH grant
...rather than taking static photos like their predecessors, DTEMs capture processes in real time by using a pulsed laser to produce very short bursts of electrons to illuminate specimens. In order to create the third-generation TEM, which Browning and his team are calling a "Bio-DTEM," three new elements must...Pliable proteins keep photosynthesis on the light path
...ter proteins during photosynthesis facilitates the light-driven movement of electrons between molecules in the reaction center, helping the plant or bacteria to ...he proteins were able to compensate by moving and energetically guiding the electrons through their biological circuit. "One of our research strategies is to i...DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at Arizona State
...rce of electrons, and the most promising source of electrons on a large scale is water. For more than 2.5 billi...ve been harvesting sunlight and using it to remove electrons from water and produce biological fuels. This proc...ochemical catalysts that use this energy to remove electrons from water molecules and employ them to make fuels...Cheap and efficient white light LEDs new design described in AIP's Journal of Applied Physics
...ectrodes. When an electric current is sent through the wafers, it liberates electrons from the atoms therein, leaving behind vacancies or "holes." When some of the wandering electrons and holes recombine, they create a parcel of light, or photon. These photon...GOCE's electric ion propulsion engine switched on
...et motor. Instead, it is supplied with xenon from a 40-kg tank, which is converted to fast-moving ions - naked xenon atoms that have had some of their electrons stripped away by an electric discharge generated from solar energy. The ions are ejected toward the rear, giving a very gentle, steady and smooth thru...Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications
... close to one another that they are within a few atomic diameters, then the electrons can actually leak from one electrode to the other, because in quantum mecha...ntum tunneling seems exotic, Lindsay points out that the routine leaking of electrons from one atom to another to form a chemical bond is a similar process. ...Latest issue of Science: Nanosonar uses electrons to measure under the surface
Jlich, 27 February 2009 Just as sonar sends out sound waves to explore the hidden depths of the ocean, electrons can be used by scanning tunnelling microscopes to investigate the well-hidden properties of the atomic lattice of metals. As researchers from Gttingen, Halle and Jlich now report in th...Latest issue of Science: Nano-sonar uses electrons to measure under the surface
Jlich, 27 February 2009 Just as sonar sends out sound waves to explore the hidden depths of the ocean, electrons can be used by scanning tunnelling microscopes to investigate the well-hidden properties of the atomic lattice of metals. As researchers from Gttingen, Halle and Jlich now report in th...Ultrafast lasers give CU-Boulder researchers a snapshot of electrons in action
In the quest to slow down and ultimately understand chemistry at the level of atoms and electrons, University of Colorado at Boulder and Canadian scientists have found a new way to peer into a molecule that allows them to see how its electrons rearrange as the molecule changes shape. Understand...'Racetrack' for fast electrons in semiconductor structures
In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure semiconductor layers where high-mobile electrons move through the crystal without collision with residual...UM physicists show electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- University of Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature. Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of graphite, is a new mat...Collaboration yields 'the right glasses' for observing mystery behavior in electrons
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, December 13, 2007In collaboration with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos, an international team of researchers has, for the first time, viewed on a nanoscale the formation of mysterious metallic puddles that facilitate the transition of an electricall...Quantum device traps, detects and manipulates the spin of single electrons
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A novel device, developed by a team led by University at Buffalo engineers, simply and conveniently traps, detects and manipulates the single spin of an electron, overcoming some major obstacles that have prevented progress toward spintronics and spin-based quantum computing. Pub...Transistors made from single electrons
Using a vibrating arm less than one-millionth of an inch long and one-thousand times thinner than a human hair, a new transistor toggles on and off through the movement of a single electron. The infinitesimal size and low power requirements of this single electron transistor (SET), created by UW...Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers
... supposed limit, Ning says. One way is by the use of a combination of semiconductors and metals such as gold and silver. "It turns out that the electrons excited in metals can help you confine a light in a laser to sizes smaller than that required by the diffraction limit," Ning explains. "Eventually, w...UCR scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics
... the local shape of the membrane," Lau said. "For instance, the ripples may produce effective magnetic fields that can be used to steer and manipulate electrons in a nanoscale device without an external magnet." Lau, an associate professor of physics and a member of UCR's Center for Nanoscale Science and...NADPH-cytochrome c reductase Colorimetric Assay Kit from Sigma-Aldrich
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