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Ions are an essential tool in chip manufacturing, but these electrically charged atoms can also be used to produce nano-sieves with homogeneously distributed pores. A particularly large number of e... - New tool for Joint Lab to investigate the chemistry of nature
The Aziz' team at the Joint Laboratory between Freie Universität Berlin and HZB has built a laser-based tabletop setup which generates ultrashort XUV light pulses and achieves their monochromatizat... - Steering Chemical Reactions with Laser Pulses
With ultra-short laser pulses, chemical reactions can be controlled at the Vienna University of Technology. Electrons have little mass and are therefore influenced by the laser, whereas the atomic ... - Atomic surface structure made visible in viscous fluids
Stefan Weber, physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP), has presented a method to measure and image surface structures in different liquids with unprecedented resolution. H... - New rapid test for stainless steel surfaces
KorroPad is the name given to a new rapid colour test developed at BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing that enables stainless steel surfaces to be tested inexpensively and rapi... - Even thinner solar cells through use of nanoparticles
Nanostructures could enable more light to be directed into the active layer of solar cells, increasing their efficiency. Prof. Martina Schmid (HZB und Freie Univ. Berlin) has now measured how irreg... - Tracking the HI Virus with High-resolution Microscopy
Experts from science and industry are working on new methods of microscopy and advancing microscopy technology to improve our ability to study and understand the molecular processes of HIV infectio... - Water content measured by means of terahertz waves
Terahertz rays can be used to determine the change in water content of leaves without destroying them. This is being demonstrated in a recent publication by biologists and physicists from Marburg t... - Efficient catalysts convert carbon dioxide to methane
When clouds cloak the sun, the production of solar power drops abruptly. When the wind lulls, wind parks quit producing energy. On the other hand, there are days on which wind power stations must b... - Heat transfer from cold to warm nanoparticles observed
Objects with sizes in the nanometer range, such as the molecular building blocks of living cells or nanotechnological devices, are continuously exposed to random collisions with surrounding molecul... - New powerful automatic method for image analysis
In order to track the movements of biological particles in a cell, scientists at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center have developed a powerful analysis method for live cell ... - Aging of Li-ion batteries explained by using X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Even the best Li-ion batteries degrade with time. A reason for this was now identified by researchers at HZB. They could directly observe at BESSY II and DORIS atomic rearrangements occurring in th... - Improved mass spectrometric method for proteomic analyses
When it comes to analyzing cell components or body fluids or developing new medications, there is no way around mass spectrometry. Mass spectrometry is a highly sensitive method of measurement that... - Atomically thick metal membranes
For the first time researchers have shown that freestanding metal membranes consisting of a single layer of atoms can be stable under ambient conditions. The success and promise of atomically t... - One-atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide may be material rivaling graphene
Will one-atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide, a compound that occurs naturally in rocks, prove to be better than graphene for electronic applications? There are many signs that might prove to... - New chemical synthesis for α-arylated Carbonyl derivatives was developed
In the Research Group of Nuno Maulide, a chemist working at the University of Vienna, a new chemical synthesis for α-arylated Carbonyl derivatives was developed. Members of this class of substances... - Young Scientist Award 2014 for dispersion analysis
One session of this year's International Workshop Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing in Berlin was dedicated to the Young Scientist Award (YSA) 2014. For the first time, LUM GmbH called for ... - Scientists record broad absorption spectra on a microsecond scale with two laser frequency combs
A team of scientists around Dr. Nathalie Picqué and Prof. Theodor W. Hänsch at the Laser Spectroscopy Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching), in a collaboration with the ... - Generating new knowledge on the binding energy of molecules on surfaces
In collaboration with colleagues from Berlin and Madrid, researchers at the Department of Physics at the University of Basel have pulled up isolated molecular chains from a gold surface, using the ... - Researchers develop ultrathin UV light absorber
Ultraviolet light (UV) has not only harmful effects on molecules and biological tissue like human skin but it also can impair the performance of organic solar cells upon long-term exposure. Researc... - Source of climate-active organic aerosol particles is dicovered
Aerosols in the atmosphere influence cloud formation, the Earth's radiation balance, and thus the climate. Until now, it had been unclear exactly how these aerosol particles are formed from the vol... - Research on clusters explosion dynamics now possible with intense extreme-ultraviolet pulses in a laboratory-scale environment
The investigation of cluster explosion dynamics under intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses has so far been limited to large scale facilities likefree-electron lasers. In a recent publication it... - The "thousand-droplets test": Chemical reactions in artificial cell-scale systems show surprising diversity
In the future, an entire chemistry lab could be accommodated in a tiny little droplet. While simple reactions already work in these simplest models of an artificial cell now a group of scientists o... - Inner workings of a cellular nanomotor revealed
Our cells produce thousands of proteins, but more than one-third of these proteins can fulfill their function only after migrating to the outside of the cell. While it is known that protein migrati... - New programs allow for more accurate ways to interpret X-ray crystallography data
Computational biologists from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna show that averaging is not always a good thing when it comes to analyzi...