Crystal Method

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- December 2009.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/27/2009; 1053 words; ...Laboratory, the researchers report on a conceptually novel doping method that can tune the band gap of titanium oxide to capture the...electronic properties of complex materials such as single-crystal thin-film structures. In a letter published in Nature Physics...

Scientists watch as peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/27/2009; 1145 words; ...biomolecules manipulate the growth crystals. This research may lead to...individual atomic layers of the crystal interacting with small protein...fell on the surface of the crystal. "Imaging biomolecules that...team improved upon previous methods and achieved unprecedented...molecular structure of ...

Research results from A.G. Simakin and co-authors update knowledge of oil and gas research.
Energy Weekly News; 12/25/2009; 602 words; ...of the degree of iron oxidation on the basis of the IMA-97 method (Leake et al., 1997). A negative correlation was established...supercooling by more than 100A degrees C) produces amphibole crystals with Al-VI = 1.3 a.f.u. and Fe3+ = Ti = 0. The obtained...

Study data from J.P. Jakupciak et al provide new insights into histochemistry.
Chemicals & Chemistry; 12/25/2009; 889 words; ...hindered by a lack of reliable methods and standards for in situ histochemical...measurement. Improved histochemical methods for measuring telomerase Could...Histochemistry report. "The lack of a crystal structure for telomerase Coupled...Histochemistry (Improved methods and standards for ...

Research from A.F. Orlov and co-researchers yields new findings on theoretical physics.
Electronics Newsweekly; 12/23/2009; 660 words; ...ferromagnetic ordering at room temperature, are studied. Single-crystal n- and p-type Si wafers with high and low electrical resistivities...850A degrees C, the implanted samples are examined by various methods. The Mn impurity that exhibits an electric activity and is...