Flow at the nanoscale: what stops a drop and keeps nanobubbles alive
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All of us have seen it: a raindrop running down the windowpane. It stops at a certain point, is met by a second raindrop and the two join up before continuing to run down the pane. Very small irregularities or dirt on the windowpane appear to stop the course of the raindrops. If the surface was entirely smooth and chemically clean, the raindrops would be able to flow unhindered. Surface defects such as small bumps and dimples as well as chemical contaminants stop the liquid drops.
These are everyday phenomena everyone knows and can observe with the naked eye.
Hannover Messe: New transparent luminous pigments provide high temperature stable protection against counterfeiting
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Research scientists at INM have developed luminous particles that can also withstand high temperatures. When activated by UV light or x-rays, they glow orange red.
Hannover Messe: New hybrid inks permit printed, flexible electronics without sintering
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Research scientists at INM have combined the benefits of organic and inorganic electronic materials in a new type of hybrid inks. This allows electronic circuits to be applied to paper directly from a pen, for example.
Quantum Simulation 2.0: Atoms Chat Long Distance
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In an international first, a research team of experimental physicists led by Francesca Ferlaino and theoretical physicists led by Peter Zoller has measured long-range magnetic interactions between ultracold particles confined in an optical lattice. Their work, published in Science, introduces a new control knob to quantum simulation.
Scientists at TU Dresden discover new phenomenon in the field of gas-solid interactions
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaskel and his team of scientists at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I at TU Dresden discovered in cooperation with the Helmholtz-Centre Berlin (HZB) and French researchers a new phenomenon in the field of gas-solid interactions: the so-called Negative Gas Adsorption (NGA). The renowned scientific journal “Nature” thereon publishes a paper of the participating scientists under the title "A pressure-amplifying framework material with negative gas adsorption transitions".
A new drugless possibility to kill bacteria
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In a recently published article a US-Brazil research cooporation showed that irradiating random arrays of nanoporous gold disks with near-infrared light leads to full inactivation of pathogenic bacteria strains within a minute.
NKT Photonics buys Fianium
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NKT Photonics has signed an agreement to acquire Fianium Holdings Limited (‘‘Fianium’’), a leading global supplier of ultra-fast, high-power laser systems, headquartered in Southampton, UK. The transaction price amounts to GBP 21m, equivalent to approx. EUR 27m.
MEMS gravimeter for mobile measurements
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A group around Richard Middlemiss presented now a new kind of gravimeter based on conventional MEMS technology, which is used in evryday’s mobile phones, and presented their results in the world leading journal Nature.
Unraveling a truly one-dimensional carbon solid
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Researchers present a direct first proof of stable ultra-long 1D carbon chains, thus paving the way for the bulk production of carbyne
New process for cell transfection in high-throughput screening
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So far, the established methods for an efficient and cell-preserving transfection in high-throughput screening lead to unsatisfactory results. Within the scope of a project of the Industrial Joint Research (IFG), the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and its partners succeeded in developing a functional model for a gold nanoparticle-based laser transfection in high-throughput.
Entanglement Becomes Easier to Measure
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Physicists have developed a new protocol to detect entanglement of many-particle quantum states using a much easier approach. The protocol is particularly interesting for characterizing entanglement in systems involving many particles. These systems could help us not only to improve our understanding of matter but to develop measurement techniques beyond current existing technologies.
Neuromorphic Computer Coming Online
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The novel, brain-inspired computing system BrainScaleS will be launched at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics of Heidelberg University. A workshop will inform about possible applications of the neuromorphic system now coming online. The workshop is addressed to users from academic research, industry and education and will be broadcasted as a web stream on 22 March 2016 from 3 pm to 6 pm CET.
Biomimetic 4D printing
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Researchers have devised all different kind of materials for different applications ranging from electronics to tissue engineering, that respond to different stimuli such as heat or light with changing their shape in a complex pattern. This might be reversible or not, depending on the different applications, but mostly it is the idea to crate a structure that is otherwise not possible to manufacture.
A team of researchers from Harvard (USA) have developed now a simpler method to achieve complex structures using thereby 3D printing technology.
Data storage for eternity
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Nanotechnology has taken up a lot of applications in recent years.
Using nanostructured glass, researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (OCR) at the University of Southhampton (UK) demonstrated a technique where digital data can be stored for practically billions of years.
SLM with new materials: magnesium alloys pave the way for new application areas
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A special processing technique now allows Selective Laser Melting (SLM) to be used with more difficult materials such as magnesium alloys, copper alloys, and other crack-prone, difficult-to-weld metals. The use of these materials makes it possible to employ the SLM process in new application areas. Several examples will be presented in a lecture session at the International Laser Technology Congress AKL’16 and the accompanying “Laser Technology Live” event at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT.
All segments of first light-generating system installed in world’s brightest X-ray laser
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In the metropolitan area of Hamburg, the installation of the 35 segments of the first of three X-ray light producing components of the European XFEL has been completed. Set into one of the facility’s tunnels, the segments are the core part of three systems called undulators, which are each up to 210 metres long and will produce X-ray laser light exceeding the intensity of conventional X-ray sources by a billion times. These pulses of X-ray radiation are the basis for new revolutionary experimental techniques that will allow scientists to study the nanocosmos, with applications in many fields including biochemistry, astrophysics, and materials science.