News articles tagged with 'copper'
MRSA eliminated by copper in live global broadcast
— 4 Apr 2011 17:58 | HealthA live broadcast from the University of Southampton today (4 April 2011) highlighted the effectiveness of antimicrobial copper in preventing the spread of antibiotic-resistant organisms,…
Carnegie Mellon researchers electrify polymerisation
— 1 Apr 2011 14:48 | TechnologyScientists led by Carnegie Mellon University chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski are using electricity from a battery to drive atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP), a widely used…
Green sludge can protect groundwater from radioactive contamination
— 17 Mar 2011 19:04 | EnvironmentRadioactive waste decaying down at the dump needs millions of years to stabilise. The element Neptunium, a waste product from uranium reactors, could pose an especially serious health…
Penn physicists develop scalable method for making graphene
— 3 Mar 2011 13:14 | PhysicsNew research from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a more consistent and cost-effective method for making graphene, the atomic-scale material that has promising applications…
Aluminium to replace copper as a conductor in on-board power systems
— 8 Feb 2011 17:39 | TechnologyElectric power and electronics are playing an ever-increasing role in all kinds of vehicles. Currently copper is the conductive material of choice. But in comparison to aluminium copper…
Scoring system is 93 percent accurate for diagnosing Wilson's disease in paediatric patients
— 30 Nov 2010 21:36 | HealthAn Italian research team confirmed that the scoring system for Wilson's disease (WD) provides good diagnostic accuracy with 93% positive and 92% negative predictive values, respectively…
Sugar and slice make graphene real nice
— 12 Nov 2010 15:48 | TechnologyFuture computers may run a little sweeter, thanks to a refinement in the manufacture of graphene at Rice University…
Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging
— 11 Nov 2010 11:41 | TechnologyUniversity of California, Berkeley, scientists have found a way to overcome one of the main limitations of ultrasound imaging - the poor resolution of the picture…
Conserving resources: Producing circuit boards with plasma
— 22 Oct 2010 20:16 | TechnologyFlexible circuits can be found in many devices where space and weight considerations are dominant in the design of electronics: in cars, in cameras and video equipment, in mini-computers…
New industrial application for revolutionary forensic metal fingerprinting technique
— 21 Oct 2010 20:12 | TechnologyGroundbreaking research into fingerprint detection developed at the University of Leicester now has an industrial application, thanks to a new invention by the scientist who developed…