Chemistry

A major obstacle for net zero technologies in combatting climate change is bridging the gap between fundamental research and its...

Completely stretchy lithium-ion battery for flexible electronics

When you think of a battery, you probably don’t think stretchy. But batteries will need this shape-shifting quality to be...

Designing safer opioids

Opioid medications offer people relief from debilitating pain, but these drugs come with dangers: the risk for addiction, miserable withdrawal...

Powerful new particle accelerator a step closer with muon-marshalling technology

New experimental results show particles called muons can be corralled into beams suitable for high-energy collisions, paving the way for...

Mechanical behavior of the {310}[001] symmetrical tilt grain boundary in the pressure range between 30-400 GPa.

Grain boundaries weaken in planetary interiors

Mantle convection and associated plate tectonics of planets like the Earth are governed by the deformation of mantle rocks. This...

A wave channel experiment used a zoom lens camera and a custom Python script

Microplastic pollution increases sea foam height and stability

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2024 — From cloud formation to sea temperatures, sea foam plays many roles in the dynamic interactions...

Information storage by the depth-dependent direction of magnetization in domain walls

Metamaterials for the data highway

Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Chemnitz, TU Dresden and Forschungszentrum Jülich have been the first to demonstrate that...

The imaging tip of the time-resolving scanning tunneling microscope captures the collective electron motion in materials through ultrafast terahertz pulses.

Breakthrough in quantum microscopy: Stuttgart researchers are making electrons visible in slow motion

"With the method we developed, we can make things visible that no one has seen before," says Prof. Sebastian Loth,...

Impact of Ni particle size on CO2 activation and CO formation during reforming process: A density functional theory study

The pressing need for effective greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies has intensified the focus on converting CO2 and methane (CH4) into...

A nanocomposite material of sodium carbonate and nanocarbon to capture carbon dioxide from industrial exhaust gas

Capturing carbon with energy-efficient sodium carbonate−nanocarbon hybrid material

Industrial emissions are one of the main sources of climate change-inducing carbon dioxide (CO2). While adopting renewable and clean energy...

¬AI model harnesses physics to autocorrect remote sensing data

By John RoachCredit: Animation by Sara Levine | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory By John Roach Turbulence, temperature changes, water...

Over £1M for global semiconductor firm IQE to enable industrialisation of ULTRARAM

An Innovate UK project worth £1.1M has been awarded to the Lancaster University spinout firm Quinas, the global semiconductor company...

Building a roadmap to bioengineer plants that produce their own nitrogen fertilizer

Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world’s growing population, but they are also costly, harm ecosystems and require...

The high-precision detection technology accurately captured the quasi-periodic path of the molecule transitioning from order to disorder

Unveil new insights into soliton molecules: Pathways to chaos and frequency entrainment

A team of researchers led by Minglie Hu, and their colleagues from institutions including Tianjin University and the Southern University...

The XUV pulses produced via high-harmonic generation (HHG) from intense laser–matter interaction

High-repetition-rate attosecond XUV beamlines at ELI ALPS for studying ultrafast phenomena

The study of processes occurring at attosecond timescales utilizing extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses is at the forefront of ultrafast science....

How does superglue work, and what the heck is electroadhesion? (video)

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2024 — How would you stick a slice of banana to a sheet of copper? Until a...

Concept of the highly efficient acetylene synthesis process from CO2 using two-step electrolysis

A new method for sustainable synthesis of acetylene from carbon dioxide