Cornell's Stroock lab creates first synthetic tree (12 Sep 2008) World's first synthetic tree is no giant redwood, but may lead to technologies for heat transfer, soil remediation tension in the water. By building mimics of xylem capillaries within the gels... to study water under tension - a subject interesting to physicists and chemists. Many...
Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles (03 Jun 2008) Discovery could significantly extend the lifetimes of common gas-liquid products tension - they instantly disappear. What Rodney showed on that screen...." Smaller bubbles have a greater surface tension and a higher gas pressure than...
A new wrinkle in thin film science (09 Aug 2007) Simple, inexpensive way to measure material properties could impact cosmetics, coating and nanoelectronic industries as it floats in a Petri dish of water. The "capillary tension" of the drop of water...
Nanotechnology Goes Out on a Wing (02 Nov 2006) Insect wings used to pattern nanoscale structures enough surface tension to be used as stamps to pattern polymer films on silicon substrates. A low surface tension is necessary so that the wings do not stick... surface tension to these structures, making them ideal for use as stamps...
UA Physicists Find Key to Long-Lived Metal Nanowires (29 Aug 2005) tension of the wire," Stafford said. "That's quite counterintuitive, because naively you'd think that surface tension should actually make the filament unstable. But the larger the surface tension, the more stable the wire, regardless...
On the horizon: a "rinse" for washing machines that dries clothes (11 Aug 2005) Think of it as a kind of chemical clothes wringer to surface tension. It's the same phenomenon that causes a submerged straw to hold.... The researchers reasoned that reducing this surface tension would reduce the water...
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