Precisely controlling plastic particles

Physicists find unusual colloids

02-Mar-2018 - Physicists at the University of Bayreuth have discovered plastic particles that enable the movements of individual particles to be observed without interruption and to be precisely controlled. New microchips which are only a few tenths of a millimetre in size and which are capable of providing ...

New insights about our Earth’s lower mantle

Scientists X-ray the most abundant mineral of Earth

21-Jul-2016 - Using DESY's bright X-ray light source PETRA III, a team of scientists has discovered unexpected facts about the most abundant mineral on Earth. The mineral bridgmanite makes up roughly one third of Earth’s entire volume and is the major component of Earth’s lower mantle. Thus, its physical ...

AMSilk founder receives DECHEMA Award

02-Dec-2013 - AMSilk’s co-founder Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheibel receives the 2013 DECHEMA award of the Max-Buchner-Research-Foundation for his work on spider silk. The DECHEMA award includes price money of 20.000 Euro. Prof. Scheibel is one the world’s leading scientists studying how spider silk works and how it ...

SERS increases in creases

22-Jun-2010 - Wrinkles are not all bad news according to European scientists, who have used them to improve a spectroscopic technique used to identify molecules. Luis Liz-Marzán and colleagues have developed a versatile method for making improved SERS substrates. They made a wrinkled strip of a silicon-based ...

Investigating how spiders spin their silk, researchers unravel a key step

Discovery opens the way toward biomimetic production of ultra-strong, elastic fibers

21-May-2010 - Five times the tensile strength of steel and triple that of the currently best synthetic fibers: Spider silk is a fascinating material. But no one has thus far succeeded in producing the super fibers synthetically. How do spiders form long, highly stable and elastic fibers from the spider silk ...