Science news articles about 'copper sulfide'

  • Cheaper materials could be key to low-cost solar cells

    ... made of CdTe (cadmium telluride) and CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide). While these materials ... candidates, including iron pyrite, copper sulfide and copper oxide. They showed that iron pyrite ...
  • Low-cost solution processing method developed for CIGS-based solar cells

    ... , Yang's team used hydrazine as the solvent to dissolve copper sulfide and indium selenide in order to form ... ) itself is the most critical to performance and the most difficult to control. Their copper-indium-diselenide layer, which is in solution form ...
  • Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

    ... X-ray crystallography. This is the first example of a copper-sulfide-molybdenum metal cluster protein ... . TM also has been examined in recent studies where copper dysregulation is implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases ...
  • Designer nanomaterials on-demand

    ... organic molecules, called ligands. These ligands are then replaced with clusters of metal chalcogenides, such as copper sulfide. As a result, the clusters link to the nanocrystal ...
  • New nanomaterial, shaped like Stars of David, discovered at Hebrew University

    ... 's group, worked on synthesizing nanoparticles combining copper sulfide, a common mineral with semiconducting properties ... minute quantities of hydrogen peroxide. Uncaged copper sulfide particles alone were not sensitive, and remarkably ...
  • Frozen comet had a watery past, University of Arizona scientists find

    ... minerals that were present at the time and precipitated the iron and copper sulfide minerals we observed in our study," Lauretta ... have not seen temperatures higher than that. " Cubanite is a copper iron sulfide, which is also found in ore deposits on Earth exposed ...
  • New kid on the plasmonic block

    ... -authors made their quantum dots from the semiconductor copper sulfide, a material that is known to support numerous ... -temperature ion exchange method to synthesize the copper sulfide nanocrystals," Jain says. "This freezes the nanocrystals ...
  • Nanocrystal transformers

    ... Paul Alivisatos, observed structural fluctuations in a copper sulfide nanocrystal as it transitioned between the low- and high ... between two more different phases in their crystal structure. Copper sulfide, for example, can be transformed from a complex hexagonal ...
  • Down to the wire

    ... of core/shell nanowires using cadmium sulfide and copper sulfide, but this time using solution chemistry. These core ... of their solar cell nanowires by increasing the amount of copper sulfide shell material. For their technology to be commercially ...

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