Fluorescent dyes currently used to image the interior of laboratory mice, the view becomes so murky several millimeters under the skin that researchers might have more success divining the future from the rodent’s entrails than they do extracting usable data.”We have already used similar carbon nanotubes to deliver drugs to treat cancer in laboratory testing [...]
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Trash to Treasure?
June 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Chemistry
Around the world there are steel mills the produce up to 12 million tons of waste dust each year. The dust often is converted into a rock-like material known as Waelz slag, than it would usual be disposed of in landfills. The slag contains iron, calcium, silicon oxide and other minor oxides as manganese, lead or zinc [...]
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Dow Corning
June 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Chemistry
This article of title is “Dow corning opens Asia’s first Solar Solution center in Korea”. As soon as I see this title, I had a question mark in my head “Korea?” And second, I could not understand what is Dow Corning so I had to ask to the other people and search about what is [...]
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Hydrogen Can Make Energy?
June 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Chemistry
Researchers find that you can use hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels. As researchers were studying they created a fully scalable type of powder photocatalyst. This kind of powder photocatalyst makes the hydrogen process simpler, easier and cheaper. This powder needs to be at an ambient temperature and pressure. This powder is made by [...]
Robotic Surgery with the Help of Nanotubes
June 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Biology, Chemistry
At the University of Central Florida, Associate Professor Lei Zhai and his team may have found a material that has the ability to change many things in our world. It can be used to detect pollutants, help with robotic surgery, and also saving energy. The material is MWCNT also known as multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are so [...]
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How Dogs Run
June 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Chemistry
Zoologists at Jena University have spent their time trying to discover what enables dogs to run how they do. Until now, the answer heard from most is that we simply do not know. If we really watched a dog run, we would probably wonder how they are able to run as smoothly and quickly as they [...]
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Nanotechnology keeps the Shine on Silver
June 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Chemistry
We all hate when our precious valuables such as silver get smudged or tarnished and we have to clean them. This is one of the difficult parts because when silver is polished, some of the silver goes with it. This is especially a problem for museums that are trying to keep their great treasures preserved [...]
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New Plan to Kill Worm Pest
June 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Biology, Chemistry
Scientists and researchers are almost at the point of bringing a parasitic pest under control. This pest, the potato cyst nematode, is a very, very small worm. This worm can destroy entire fields of crops. It feasts on flowering plants like tomatoes, aubergines, and potatoes. These worms are even more dangerous based on the fact that their [...]
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Stamping out Low Cost Nanodevices
June 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Chemistry
Scientists at Vanderbilt University discovered a cheap and easy to make nano-material that can be used to serve many purposes. The material called porous nanomaterial can be used for drug delivery, chemical and biological sensors, solar cells and battery electrodes, and more. They say it is easy to stamp too. It is also made to identify many organic [...]
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Making Complex Fluids Look Simple
June 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Chemistry
Scientists in Vienna and the University of Rome have figured out how to make complex fluids foundations look simple. Now complex fluids such as polymer melts for plastics can be viewed and studied much easier than before. Prof. Christos Likos of the University of Vienna said, ”Our microscopic theory describes the interactions between the various components [...]
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