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Chemistry World
July 30, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Smoothing out plasmonic surfaces US scientists have found a simple way to make smooth metal films with nano-scale patterns in a variety of shapes that could one day be used in plasmonic devices that manipulate electromagnetic waves.   |
Chemistry World
May 2, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Ionic Liquids' Etch-A-Sketch Surprise UK chemists have discovered how to draw and erase pictures on the surfaces of ionic liquids. |
Technology Research News
November 19, 2003 |
Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber. |
Technology Research News
April 23, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Silver bits channel nano light Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California have found a way to guide near-field light over short distances through channels that are several times narrower than the wavelengths of light. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2014
Richard Massey |
Ionic liquid-gas interfaces: more than a surface glance Research by scientists in the UK suggests that small changes in the nature of binary ionic liquid systems can significantly alter their surface composition. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Neil Savage |
Plasmonic Imager Could Slim Down Spy Satellites But even its developers are far from knowing if it will work. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2008
Jonathan Edwards |
Non-stick at the flick of a switch Nano-nails can repel almost any liquid. |
Chemistry World
July 20, 2009
Philip Ball |
Researchers form first liquid protein Chemists at the University of Bristol, UK and their colleagues, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Research in Golm, Germany, have figured out how to convert pure proteins into a liquid state, without any solvent. |
Chemistry World
May 19, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Liquid crystals spot bacteria to order Liquid crystals could one day be used as bio-sensors, detecting the presence of minute amounts of pathogens. That is the claim of a US group of researchers, who have demonstrated how a liquid crystal changes orientation in the presence of bacteria. |
Chemistry World
June 21, 2007
Michael Gross |
A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2009
Nina Notman |
Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains. |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2013
David Bradley |
Lab-on-a-chip rises to cola challenge The great taste of fluorescence has allowed researchers in Finland to develop a microfluidics device that can analyze complex unknowns in a liquid using microfluidics. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 33
David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. |
Chemistry World
December 22, 2010
Patricia Pantos |
Ferrofluids help you see better US researchers have used ferrofluids as liquid pistons that could be used to make adjustable liquid lenses with nearly perfect spherical interfaces for applications such as an optometrist's phoropter. |
Chemistry World
March 26, 2015
Jonathan Midgley |
Ionic liquid a perfect fit for rare earth recycling Chemists in Belgium have shown how an intriguing ionic liquid they developed 10 years ago can recover valuable rare earth metals from stockpiles of used fluorescent lamps and magnets. |
Chemistry World
July 26, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Remote controlled omniphobic surface Chemists in the US have developed a material that normally resists wetting by both aqueous and organic liquids, but can have this property 'switched off' using a magnet, allowing liquids to soak the surface. |
Chemistry World
May 27, 2015
Emma Stephen |
ZIF-8 disrupts ionic liquid deep freeze Researchers from Japan have combined an ionic liquid with a metal -- organic framework to produce an unusual material that retains its conductivity below -- 20 C. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Saswato R. Das |
Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations. |
Chemistry World
October 30, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
A new way to convert light to electricity By shining light onto metallic nanoparticles, researchers in the US and the Netherlands have demonstrated an entirely new way to generate electrical energy |
Chemistry World
September 22, 2014
David Bradley |
Molten metal batteries set to store grid power Storing electricity from intermittent, but renewable, sources such as wind and solar power and even from more conventional power stations, could allow national electrical grids to meet demand more consistently. |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2011
Andy Extance |
Surface plasmons create vivid holograms Plasmons are "quasiparticles" that are observed when electrons in a metal collectively oscillate at light wave frequency. |
Chemistry World
February 9, 2015
Hugh Cowley |
Unexpected success with luminescent liquid crystals A simple and effective procedure to incorporate strongly-emitting inorganic clusters into nematic liquid crystals has been reported by a team from France. |
Technology Research News
February 9, 2005 |
Lens design promises tight spots A new photonic crystal lens can focus near-field light to a spot one-quarter of the light's wavelength. The device can be used to make smaller, faster computer chips and memory. It could also be used in super-resolution microscopes. |
Chemistry World
December 11, 2013
Jon Cartwright |
Vibrations couple light to graphene Two independent groups have shown that light can be effectively turned into surface plasmons in graphene if the carbon sheet is made to vibrate. |
Technology Research News
April 9, 2003 |
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between. |
Chemistry World
August 17, 2012
Philip Ball |
Getting under water's skin The surface tension of water is explained in textbooks with pictures showing water molecules pulling each other sideways and downwards at the liquid surface, producing a kind of surface 'skin'. |
Chemistry World
March 12, 2013
Andy Extance |
'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues Researchers exploited gold's ability to trap and concentrate light, creating oscillations in the electron cloud at its surface called surface plasmons. |
Chemistry World
January 5, 2012
Laura Howes |
Surfing the Plasmonic Wave Researchers have shown with both spatial and temporal resolution, how the electric field around a nanoparticle changes when the nanoparticle is excited by a laser. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2015
Christopher Barnard |
Microfluidic device lets the drop beat Scientists in Switzerland have incorporated pulsing human heart tissue into a microfluidic device to make a model of a living system that could be used to test new drugs. |
Chemistry World
November 11, 2011
Charlie Quigg |
Invisible ink for the 21st century Scientists from China have developed a new lithographic printing technique to layer a pattern onto photonic paper. |
Chemistry World
August 6, 2013
Chris Nicklin |
Liquid surfaces and interfaces: synchrotron x-ray methods Peter Pershan and Mark Schlossman are leaders in applying synchrotron methods to understand the structure of liquid surfaces and have produced a book that will undoubtedly become required reading for both new and established researchers in this field. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Liquid Crystal IDs Pathogens Liquid crystal is not only the stuff of computer screens and watch displays, it is also how your cell membranes are structured. Combining the similarly structured artificial and biological materials makes a device that detects viruses and toxins. |
Technology Research News
February 25, 2004 |
Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology. |
Technology Research News
February 11, 2004 |
Magnets tune photonic crystal Researchers from Fudan University in China have found that it is possible to use a magnetic field to quickly shift or block certain frequencies of electromagnetic signals passing through photonic crystals made from semiconductor material. |
Chemistry World
March 22, 2013
Melissae Fellet |
Painting circuits on skin Painting a patient's skin with a liquid metal ink could make heart monitoring much less painful and even let doctors keep an eye on a whole range of vital signs. |
Chemistry World
June 5, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Raman scattering reaches sub-nm resolution Researchers have achieved the highest resolution yet with Raman spectroscopy, allowing the chemical mapping of molecules to a resolution of less than 1nm. The technique could allow unprecedented chemical identification of single molecules. |
Chemistry World
July 4, 2013
Daniel Johnson |
Sublime Leidenfrost In the Leidenfrost effect, a liquid collides with a surface much hotter than its boiling point, forming a protective cushion of gas that also becomes an insulating layer, slowing further evaporation. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Neil Savage |
Nanostructures Catch the Light Razor-thin solar cells could be cheap but need a little help holding light in |
