Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
New research at Rice University ultimately could show scientists the way to make batches of nanotubes of a single type. A paper in the online journal Physical Review Letters unveils an elegant formula by Rice University physicist Boris Yakobson and his colleagues that defines the energy of a piece of ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_12876" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Knowing enough about the way light is scattered through materials would allow physicists to see through opaque substances, such as the sugar cube on the right. In addition, physicists could use information characterizing an opaque material to put it to work as a high quality optical ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_7914" align="alignright" width="375" caption="Focusing surface vibrations onto a water droplet causes it erupt into a narrow jet. The technique could be used in biomedical research or drug-delivery applications."][/caption]
Fluid jets are normally formed by forcing a liquid through a small opening—as is exemplified in the case of a syringe. ...
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