Plasma

Enzymes can do a good job as catalysts – they can, for example, synthesise a specific product, but not its mirror image, which has to be laboriously separated in other processes. However, they are sensitive and are sometimes inactivated by the substrate they convert. Using plasma, the team of Profes more

A new, extremely efficient source of terahertz radiation has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna): Lasers turn air into plasma, thereby producing terahertz rays for many possible applications. Terahertz radiation is used for security checks at airports, for medical examinations and also for quality ch more

Using a trick modelled on the Trojan Horse, a novel electron source can generate extremely brilliant particle beams. The new method uses plasma acceleration technology and promises 100 to 10,000 times more tightly focused electron beams than conventional accelerators can currently deliver. An intern more

In this paper, we explore a variety of aqueous digestion techniques for the determination of gold, in a wide variety of mineral matrices. These include feldspar, basalt, pyrites, and other gold-containing minerals. The acid-based digestion methods compete effectively with fire assay to deliver accur more

Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1119: High-Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with High Active Nitrogen Fluxes Materials doi: 10.3390/ma11071119 Authors: Tin S. Cheng Alex Summerfield Christopher J. Mellor Andrei N. Khlobystov Laurence Eaves C. Thomas Foxon more

by Jason S. Rockel, Weidong Zhang, Konstantin Shestopaloff, Sergei Likhodii, Guang Sun, Andrew Furey, Edward Randell, Kala Sundararajan, Rajiv Gandhi, Guangju Zhai, Mohit Kapoor Multiple factors can help predict knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients from healthy individuals, including age, sex, and B more