The company’s carbon-nanosphere production will allow it to provide the material as an anti-corrosive additive for ...

Tim Lodge received B.A. in Applied Mathematics (Harvard) and a PhD in Chemistry (Wisconsin). He joined the Minnesota faculty in 1982, and was named a Regents Professor in 2013. He received the 2004 ...

Metalworking usually requires very high heat and pressure, but scientists in Singapore have now demonstrated a way to make very pure metal structures at room temperature. It’s inspired by the ...

Scientists have discovered a way to write directly into liquid water, creating clear and long-lasting patterns which float below the surface of the fluid. In the new study, published Aug. 21 in the ...

In a bag of mixed nuts, after shaking, smaller nuts fill in the gaps created at the bottom, pushing the larger Brazil nuts to the top. Credit: Melchoir, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Physicists ...

Physicists from the University of Utrecht and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have observed—for the first time experimentally—the Brazil nut effect in a mixture of charged colloidal ...

Physicists from the University of Utrecht and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have observed - for the first time experimentally - the Brazil nut effect in a mixture of charged ...

School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K. Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, U.K. School of ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an indispensable tool to image and characterize samples in colloidal states such as mineral flotation. Understanding mineral flotation enables efficient methods for ...