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UCSB and Getty Conservation Institute Researchers Study Cultural Heritage Painting Cross-Sections using Breakthrough AFM Based Nanoscale Mass Spectrometry Technique

Anasys Instruments reports on the study of cultural heritage painting cross-sections by researchers from UCSB and the Getty Conservation Institute using their breakthrough AFM-based nanoscale mass spectrometry technique....

16 Jan 2015

Multiplication of Electrical Charges in Single Molecules Could Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Columbia University have collaborated to develop solar cell polymers that have multiplied electrical output.

14 Jan 2015

Metal-Free Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Process Uses Organic-Based Photocatalyst

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and The Dow Chemical Company have collaborated to develop an innovative atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) process that may help overcome the hurdles that have so far prevented common use of controlled radical polymerization. The new process does not utilize metals. It uses an organic-based photocatalyst instead.

14 Jan 2015

Researchers Design Reversibly Self-Folding Origami Structures Using UV Photolithographic Patterning

A team of researchers from UMass Amherst have developed a method of constructing self-folding reversible origami structures on small length scales using Ultraviolet photolithographic patterning on photo-crosslinkable polymers.

9 Jan 2015

Sophisticated Computer Simulations to Help Overcome Challenges in Blue LED Manufacture

A new discovery explains the difficulty in making blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). They used advanced computer simulations to reveal the properties of gallium nitride, which is the main component of blue LEDs.

9 Jan 2015

Researchers Solve Mysterious Stability of Graphene Oxide Films Using Basic Chemistry

A research team led by Northwestern University has solved the solubility mystery of graphene oxide (GO) films using basic inorganic chemistry.

6 Jan 2015

Automobile Body Uses Cost-Effective Botanical Natural Fibers

Researchers at the Application Center for Wood Fiber Research HOFZET of the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, the Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI in Braunschweig have discovered a new research approach that has enabled the creation of lightweight and cost-efficient vehicle body for automobiles.

6 Jan 2015

Nitric Oxide Gas Stably Gift-Wrapped Within Metal-Organic Frameworks

A group of scientists led by researchers at the Université de Versailles' Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to stably gift-wrap a chemical gas known as nitric oxide within metal-organic frameworks. Such an encapsulated chemical may allow doctors to administer nitric oxide in a more highly controlled way to patients, suggesting new approaches for treating dangerous infections and heart conditions with the biologically-active substance.

31 Dec 2014

Electrostatic Repulsion Dominates Properties of New Hydrogel

In a world-first achievement published in Nature, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the National Institute of Material Science and the University of Tokyo, have developed a new hydrogel whose properties are dominated by electrostatic repulsion, rather than attractive interactions.

31 Dec 2014

Fano Resonance Could Exist in Materials Used in Electronic Devices

An international team of scientists predicts that a phenomenon known in physics as Fano resonance can exist in materials that are used in electronic devices.

26 Dec 2014

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