Synopsis: Nuclear physics: Subatomic particles:


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Nothing about the particles told the researchers what voltages to try, however. They started with random values and learned


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because very small particles then slip out of it like fish through a net. The use of 3d printing to make working tissue


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what path photons take down the fibre, and how they interfere with each other, Carpenter says. Finally, they created a light pulse with the exact cross-section needed to counteract the distortion


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They manufactured the implant with a $1. 3 million metal printer at a government-run lab. The printer uses an electron beam to melt titanium powder,


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The paper states,-rays radiated by relativistic electrons driven by well-controlled high-power lasers offer a promising route to a proliferation of this powerful imaging technology.

and wiggles electrons, giving rise to a brilliant kev X-ray emission. his so-called betatron radiation is emitted in a collimated beam with excellent spatial coherence and remarkable spectral stability.

The X-rays required were generated by electrons that were accelerated to nearly the speed of light over a distance of approximately one centimeter by laser pulses lasting around 25fs.

and their electrons like a ship through water, producing a wake of oscillating electrons. This electron wave creates a trailing wave-shaped electric field structure on which the electrons surf and by

which they are accelerated in the process. The particles then start to vibrate, emitting X-rays. Each light pulse generates an X-ray pulse.

The X-rays generated have special properties: a wavelength of approximately 0. 1nm, which corresponds to a duration of only about 5fs,


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or waveguide to emit photons which are always in phase with one another, "said Philip Munoz,

and infinitely long, enabling even distant particles to be entangled


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#Laser array on silicon promises new level of photonic integration Scientists in Belgium are claiming a breakthrough advance for integrated photonics by fabricating an array of laser diodes on a large silicon wafer typical


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#Chip Simplifies Quantum Optics Experiments A silicon chip that can process photons in an infinite number of ways could speed up development of quantum computing.

The system consists of a cascade of 15 Mach-Zehnder interferometers with 30 thermo-optic phase shifters and 12 single-photon detectors.

Now anybody can run their own experiments with photons, much like they operate any other piece of software on a computer.


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#Spinal Neuron Connections Probed with Fluorescence microscopy Using two-photon fluorescence microscopy, researchers have gained new insight into how the spinal cord mediates commands from the brain to get the body moving.


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A multicolor imaging mode enhanced the information presented in the resulting videos by detecting different fluorescent labels on cells'membranes and nuclei e


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will be used on Rocket Labs Electron orbital launch vehicle, which will get its first test spin later this year.

Rutherford is produced also via electron beam melting, an advanced form of 3d printing. Its engine chamber, injector, turbopumps,

The Rutherford engine will be the main propulsion source for Rocket Labs Electron vehicle which the company hopes to use as a low-cost method for launching satellites and other small payloads of up to 220 pounds into space.


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On the most basic level, that means that dissolved salt particles, which have a slight electric charge,


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Prions, or roteinaceous infectious particles, are proteins that exist normally in the body but can sometimes cause disease.


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and contrast agents to the nanoparticle to track the particle. Or the nanoparticle itself is the image and contrast agent

Her Phd at Purdue University and her research at Boston's Massachusetts institute of technology were dedicated both to studying particle stabilization to avoid clogging arteries with the nanoparticles and drug delivery vehicles;


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"Graphene, a one-atom-thick, 2-D sheet of carbon atoms, is known for moving electrons at lightning speed across its surface without interference.

and stop electrons at will via band-gaps, as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no band-gaps,

a technique using electrons (instead of light or the eyes) to see the characteristics of a sample,

Data gathered from the electron signatures allowed the researchers to create images of the material's dimensions and orientation.

and extent to which electrons scattered throughout the material.""We're looking at fundamental physical properties to verify that it is, in fact,


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Ultimately, it is these electrons which are transferred to the protons in the water moleculend thereby create elementary hydrogen.

The COFS created in Stuttgart meet all the prerequisites. However the scientists had to add platinum nanoparticles and an electron donor to their powder polymer."

"The platinum nanoparticles work as microelectrodes on which the electrons are transferred from the COF to the protons to form hydrogen,

"says Vijay Vyas, a scientist in the Nanochemistry Research Group at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research."

"And the electron donor is necessary to remove the residual positive charge on the COF, "Vyas explains.


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is by the same team that published the first high-resolution 3-D maps showing how the human genome folds inside the nucleus of a cell.

and then met inside the cell nucleus, Aiden said. ut this process would lead to interweaving loops and highly entangled chromosomes.


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which absorb electrons meant for conversion. According to researchers, the sample with the solvent additive was consistent throughout

However, the information obtained from the neutron reflectometry will help scientists boost organic solar cell performance, according to ORNL. ptimization of photovoltaic properties provides information to manufacture solar cells with fully controlled morphology


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according to the researchers. hat unique about this paper is that we show not the use of metal particles, not the use of metal nanoparticles,

but the use of atoms, Tour said. he particles doing this chemistry are as small as you can possibly Get even particles on the nanoscale work only at the surface,


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A Purdue Univ.-led team of researchers observed electrons transition from a topologically ordered phase to a broken symmetry phase."

His team employs novel investigative techniques for the study of electrons freely flowing in ultrapure gallium arsenide semiconductor crystals,

and arsenic atoms that can capture electrons on a 2-D plane. Only a few groups in the world are able to grow the material,

The gallium arsenide crystals grown using the molecular beam epitaxy technique serve as a model platform to explore the many phases that arise among strongly interacting electrons,

but it is worth the effort to discover new phenomena involving the entire sea of electrons acting in concert.

"Material grown by the Manfra group was shown to have an electron mobility measurement of 35 million centimeters squared per volt-second,

"In most materials electrons are restricted very in what they can do because they bump into atomic-level defects that perturb them,

"The material grown by the Manfra group is so pure and free from defects that it gives electrons the freedom to enter into more than 100 different phases,

The extremely low temperature encourages the electrons to enter into exotic states where they no longer obey the laws of single particle physics,

A collective motion of the electrons is then possible that is described by the laws of quantum mechanics

"Imagine eggs in an egg carton as electrons arranged in a certain formation, "he said."

"The eggs are identical just like the electrons are identical particles. If you swap one egg with another,

if you swap two electrons, it causes a change to the entire group and the egg carton enters an entirely different state.

"The team was trying to induce an electron spin transition in this non-Abelian state, but before the desired state was reached,

the electrons spontaneously transitioned into the so-called"stripe"phase that belongs to the traditional, broken symmetry phases group."

but the electrons went from deep in the topological phase too deep in the broken symmetry phase."


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#Lab scientists discover five new nuclei Lawrence Livermore scientists, in conjunction with international researchers, have discovered five new atomic nuclei to be added the chart of nuclides.

The study, conducted this fall, focuses on developing new methods of synthesis for super heavy elements.

The newly discovered, exotic nuclei are one isotope each of heavy elements berkelium, neptunium and uranium and two isotopes of the element americium.

These isotopes are distinguished from one another by the number of neutrons in the nucleus, and thus by their mass.

The newly discovered isotopes have fewer neutrons and are lighter than the previously known isotopes of the respective elements.

Due to their low number of neutrons, their structure is very exotic and therefore interesting for the development of theoretical models describing atomic nuclei. hese results really push what we know about nuclear structure to the extreme, neutron-deficient end of the chart of the nuclides,

Shaughnessy said. hen you realize that naturally occurring uranium has 146 neutrons and this new isotope only has 124 neutrons,

it shows how much more we still have yet to learn about nuclear structure and the forces that hold the nucleus together.

Scientists at LLNL have been involved in heavy element research since the Laboratory's inception in 1952 and have been collaborators in the discovery of six elements 113,114 (Flerovium), 115,116 (Livermorium), 117 and 118.

Apart from discoveries themselves, the discovery is the first proof of the new technique for production of these exotic nuclides.

For the experiment, the scientists shot at a 300-nanometer-thick foil of curium with accelerated calcium nuclei.

In the collisions studied, the atomic nuclei of the two elements touched and formed a compound system for an extremely short time.

the two nuclei involved exchanged a number of their nuclear building-blocks protons and neutrons. Different isotopes formed as the end products of this exchange.


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which an electrode used for splitting water absorbs solar photons while at the same time improving the flow of electrons from one electrode to another.

"Excited electrons When building a sun-capturing electrode, scientists aim to use as much of the solar spectrum as possible to excite electrons in the electrode to move from one state to another,

where they will be available for the water-splitting reaction. Equally important, but a separate problem entirely, the electrons need to move easily from the electrode to a counter-electrode,

creating a flow of current. Until now, scientists have had to use separate manipulations to increase photon absorption

and the movement of electrons in the materials they are testing. Choi and postdoctoral researcher Tae Woo Kim found that

if they heated an electrode made of the semiconducting compound bismuth vanadate to 350 degrees Celsius

The result was a notable increase in both photon absorption and electron transport. What was not clear was exactly how the nitrogen was facilitating the observed changes.

"Galli's team found that these defects enhance the transport of electrons. But more interestingly, they found that the nitrogen that had been incorporated into the compound increased the transport of electrons independent of the defects.

Finally, that nitrogen lowered the energy needed to kick electrons into the state in which they were available to split water.

This meant that more of the solar energy could be used by the electrode.""Now we understand what's going on at the microscopic level,


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So there are carbon particles inside the silicone which make it conductive so we can use it for electronics,


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and Israel has discovered a novel phase of matter that is characterized by an unusual ordering of electrons. he discovery of this phase was unexpected completely and not based on any prior theoretical prediction.

first consider a crystal with electrons moving around throughout its interior. Under certain conditions, it can be energetically favorable for these electrical charges to pile up in a regular,

In addition to charge, electrons also have a degree of freedom known as spin.?When spins line up parallel to each other,

what if the electrons in a material are ordered not in one of those ways? In other words, what if the order were described not by a scalar or vector but by something with more dimensionality, like a matrix??

Like the cuprates, iridates are electrically insulating antiferromagnets that become increasingly metallic as electrons are added to

where an additional amount of energy is required to strip electrons out of the material. For years, physicists have debated the origin of the pseudogap


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and a smaller version, targeted at manipulating particles inside the human body l


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#Non-Genetic Cancer Mechanism Found Cancer can be caused solely by protein imbalances within cells, a study of ovarian cancer has found.


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however, did not contain glass particles. The aluminium oxide platelets in the second layer were aligned horizontally to the surface of the tooth using the magnet.


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and converts to electrons. According to the press release, these electrons are used then to supplement the voltage stored in the lithium-anode portion of the solar battery.

When they tested their solar batteries against conventional lithium-iodine batteries, they charged and discharged them 25 times to see how much electricity they would discharge each round.


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and it contains sub-micron particles that pick up amino and fatty acids as well as the shape of the print itself with the aid of a mass spectrometer.

This scans the print with a laser, particles in the powder are ionised vaporised and, and a molecular profile appears.


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Specially made synthetic membranes are used to filter out large salt particles and impurities so they can be evaporated away,


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because wee hit the limit for how fast electrons can travel between the processor and the memory."

"Making light-based computers isn as simple as replacing electrons with light particles-or photons-in current computers.

the silicon chips we have now still require the photons to be converted back to electrons when the data reaches our computer.

which actually makes it less efficient than if we just used electrons in the first place. Instead, we need to completely redesign the way our computers work,

-which carries the photons to where they need to go.""Think of the waveguide as a kind of miniature fibre optic cable that can carry light:


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are defined by the spin of a single electron. But by reconfiguring traditional transistors to only be associated with one electron,

Dzurak and his team were able to have them define qubits instead. ee morphed those silicon transistors into quantum bits by ensuring that each has only one electron associated with it.

We then store the binary code of 0 or 1 on the'spin'of the electron,

which is associated with the electron tiny magnetic field, said Menno Veldhorst, the lead author of the research,

which has been published in Nature. The team then showed that they could use metal electrodes on these transistors to control the qubits


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#Scientists say theye found a particle made entirely of nuclear force After decades of searching, scientists say theye finally identified a glueball-a particle made purely of nuclear force.

Hypothesised to exist as part of the standard model of particle physics, glueballs have eluded scientists since the 1970s because they can only be detected indirectly by measuring their process of decay.

Now, a team of particle scientists in Austria say they've found evidence for the existence of glueballs by observing the decay of a particle known as f0 (1710.

Protons and neutrons-the particles that make up everyday matter-are made of minuscule elementary particles called quarks,

and quarks are held together by even smaller particles called gluons. Also known as'sticky particles',massless gluons are described as a complicated version of the photon,

because just like how photons are responsible for exerting the force of electromagnetism, gluons are in charge of exerting a strong nuclear force."

"In particle physics, every force is mediated by a special kind of force particle, and the force particle of the strong nuclear force is the gluon,

"explains one of the researchers, Anton Rebhan from the Vienna University of Technology. But there is one major difference between the two:

while photons aren affected by the force they exert, gluons are. This important fact means that

while photons can exist in what known as a bound state, gluons can be bound together via their own nuclear force to form glueballs."

"The existence of glueball particles brings the idea that, not only can particles be forces or force carriers (i e.,

, photons), but that these massless particles are also contingent upon the force that they are made up of,

allowing glueballs to exist in a static state, "J. E. Reich writes for Techtimes. Gluons might be massless on their own,

but their interactions with each other give glueballs a mass, which, theoretically, allows scientists to detect them,

if only indirectly through their decay process. And while several particles have been identified in particle accelerator experiments as being viable candidates for glueballs

until now, no one been able to make a convincing case for any of them consisting of pure atomic force.

The closest scientists have gotten to finding a glueball is narrowing in on two possible candidates: f0 (1500) and f0 (1710),

which are called subatomic particles mesons that are composed of one quark and one antiquark each. For a while, f0 (1500) was considered the more promising candidate of the two,

because while f0 (1710) produced better results when applied to computer models, its decay process produced heavy quarks-also known as'strange quarks'.

'This was a problem, because some scientists assumed that gluon interactions did not usually differentiate between heavier and lighter quarks-something that Rebhan

and his colleagues say theye reconciled in their calculations, published in Physical Review Letters today."

"Our calculations show that it is indeed possible for glueballs to decay predominantly into strange quarks,

"he says, explaining that when the decay pattern for lighter quarks was measured also for f0 (1710),

the results agreed"extremely well"with their model. The researchers are hoping the new data from experiments at the Large hadron collider at CERN (TOTEM

"For these multi-particle processes, our theory predicts decay rates which are quite different from the predictions of other, simpler models.

"Need a crash course in quarks, strange quarks, and all the rest a


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#Watch: This self-balancing wheelchair can climb and descend stairs automatically Stairs and uneven ground surfaces pose a huge problem for wheelchair users,


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and proteins that produces chromosomes inside cell nuclei -which helps it to maintain gene expression patterns that are put in place during early development.


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certain cancer biomarkers cling to the surface of the tiny particles, increasing their size and causing them to clump together.

Huo and her team at UCF's Nanoscience Technology Center developed a technique known as nanoparticle-enabled dynamic light scattering assay (Nanodlsay) to measure the size of the particles by analyzing the light they throw off.


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The breakthrough, described in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and featured as ACS Editors'Choice for open access, addresses a decades-long challenge for electron-transport conducting polymers,

but until now have not been successful in developing an efficient electron-transport conducting polymer to pair with the established hole-transporting polymers.

a significant progress for electron-transporting? -conjugated polymers...With rational molecular design? -conjugated redox polymers will establish new design space in polymer chemistry


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#Researchers deliver large particles into cells at high speed The researchers created a highly efficient automated tool that delivers nanoparticles, enzymes, antibodies, bacteria and other"large-sized"cargo into mammalian cells at the rate

the only way to deliver so-called large cargo, particles up to 1 micrometer in size, into cells is by using micropipettes, syringe-like tools common in laboratories,

Underneath the holes is a well of liquid that includes the particles to be delivered. Researchers use a laser pulse to heat the titanium coating,

The fissure allows the particle-filled liquid underneath the cells to be jammed into them before the membrane reseals.


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the researchers have proposed that electromagnetic waves are generated not only from the acceleration of electrons, but also from a phenomenon known as symmetry breaking.

The phenomenon of radiation due to electron acceleration, first identified more than a century ago, has no counterpart in quantum mechanics,

where electrons are assumed to jump from higher to lower energy states. These new observations of radiation resulting from broken symmetry of the electric field may provide some link between the two fields.

which state that electromagnetic radiation is generated by accelerating electrons. However, this theory becomes problematic when dealing with radio wave emission from a dielectric solid, a material

which normally acts as an insulator, meaning that electrons are not free to move around. Despite this

The researchers determined that the reason for this phenomenon is due to symmetry breaking of the electric field associated with the electron acceleration.

Symmetry breaking can also apply in cases such as a pair of parallel wires in which electrons can be accelerated by applying an oscillating electric field."

The electromagnetic radiation emitted from dielectric materials is due to accelerating electrons on the metallic electrodes attached to them

you have to break the symmetry as well as have accelerating electrons--this is the missing piece of the puzzle of electromagnetic theory,


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these proteins allow charged particles to flow into the cell or transport them outside the cell.


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"The device uses gold nanoparticles (microscopic particles) and glowing quantum dots. The researchers developed a novel approach for rapid and sensitive detection of surface proteins of viruses from blood samples of turkeys.


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Associate professor Morello said the method works by distorting the shape of the electron cloud attached to the atom,

which the electron responds.""Therefore, we can selectively choose which qubit to operate. It's a bit like selecting which radio station we tune to,


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This interaction leads to a rapid creation of an electron distribution with an elevated electron temperature.

and rapidly converted into electron heat. Next, the electron heat is converted into a voltage at the interface of two graphene regions with different doping.

This photo-thermoelectric effect turns out to occur almost instantaneously, thus enabling the ultrafast conversion of absorbed light into electrical signals.


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In addition to taking on different forms as a neutral molecule, KP1212 also could accept an extra proton,

The work taught his team how to create even more potent shape shifters--by decorating the KP1212 scaffold with groups of atoms and molecules that further raises their ability to capture protons."


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"In our system, nanowires harvest solar energy and deliver electrons to bacteria, where carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of a variety of targeted, value-added chemical products."

"When sunlight is absorbed, photo-excited electron? hole pairs are generated in the silicon and titanium oxide nanowires,

The photo-generated electrons in the silicon will be passed onto bacteria for the CO2 reduction while the photo-generated holes in the titanium oxide split water molecules to make oxygen."

For this study, the Berkeley team used Sporomusa ovata, an anaerobic bacterium that readily accepts electrons directly from the surrounding environment


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the flow of electrons generated projects the molecules of interest toward the target area. To enable validation of this new technique,


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The diarylethene molecule contact using electron-beam lithography and the subsequent measurements alone lasted three long years.


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#Efficient method of producing metallic nanoparticles VTT's aerosol technology reactor for nanoparticle production can generate a variety of pure metal particles, particles of various alloys and carbon-coated particles.

The process generates an extremely high particle concentration, enabling a high production speed but with low gas consumption.

by adding particles which increase radar wave attenuation. VTT's researchers believe that the reactor has many applications


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#From metal to insulator and back again Metals are compounds that are capable of conducting the flow of electrons that make up an electric current.

Metals are compounds that are capable of conducting the flow of electrons that make up an electric current.

The onsets of these transitions can be determined by the positions of electrons within the basic structure of the material.

electrons localize between the atoms and do not freely flow as they do in the metallic form."


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#Ultra-sensitive sensor detects individual electrons In the same Cambridge laboratory in the United kingdom where The british physicist J. J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897,

European scientists have developed just a new ultra-sensitive electrical-charge sensor capable of detecting the movement of individual electrons."

and can detect the electrical charge of a single electron in less than one microsecond,"M. Fernando Gonzlez Zalba,

'will be used in quantum computers of the future to read information stored in the charge or spin of a single electron."

as well as detecting the movement of individual electrons, the device is able to control its flow

The researchers have demonstrated the possibility of detecting the charge of an electron with their device in approximately one nanosecond,

This has been achieved by coupling a gate sensor to a silicon nanotransistor where the electrons flow individually.

fridges and other electrical equipment is made up of electrons: minuscule particles carrying an electrical charge travelling in their trillions and

whose collective movement makes these appliances work. However, this is not the case of the latest cutting-edge devices such as ultra-precise biosensors, single electron transistors, molecular circuits and quantum computers.

These represent a new technological sector which bases its electronic functionality on the charge of a single electron,

a field in which the new gate sensor can offer its advantages s


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#Researchers add a new wrinkle to cell culture Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene,


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say, a virus or a bacteria particle.""In mass spectrometry, molecules are ionised (or electrically charged)

"We can analyse this measurement to get both the mass and shape of the attached particle,


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"Radiation pressure physics in these systems have become measurable only when the oscillator is hit by millions of photons,

Because of the increased radiation pressure coupling, the oscillator observes the electromagnetic field with the precision of a single photon.

--Some claim that the theory holds only with very small particles. Nevertheless, the existence of an upper limit for the validity region has not been found--yet.


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