Chemistry
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Unveils 20th Data Release
SDSS Data Release 20 Maps the Southern Sky in Unprecedented Detail The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has released Data Release...
Interactive lessons clarify semiconductor physics for engineering students
Semiconductor Breakthrough: Interactive Visualizations Let Students See the Invisible World Inside Modern Electronics At a time when the United States...
Metadevices Transform Imaging and Displays from Nonresonant to Resonant Phenomena
Metasurfaces are moving beyond the era of simply bending light. A new review from Professor Din Ping Tsai’s group at...
Crystallization engineering enhances high-frequency performance of thick carbon electrodes
image: Structural schematics and electrochemical performance of 3D-GCTG and 3D-CTG (from 3D nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide template-assisted chemical vapor deposition) view...
Paper-based smart packaging offers sustainable path to cut food waste and plastic pollution
image: A new review maps multifunctional modification strategies and matrix-specific applications while warning that recyclability paradoxes and safety gaps still block...
Shaping light like never before – with photonic time crystals
image: A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice in time...
Sensing-storage monolithically integrated system for wearable physiological sensing
image: A sensing-storage monolithically integrated system fabricated using a low-cost solution spin-coating process is reported. This system organically combines a...
Thermal engineering of ZnMgO enables high-reliability and long-lifetime quantum dot light-emitting diodes
image: Thermal treatment of ZnMgO nanoparticles reduces the density of oxygen vacancies and increases the nanoparticle size, enabling quantum dot light-emitting...
Realization of an atom-holography microscope for direct visualization of three-dimensional atomic arrangements in nanoscale regions
image: Figure 1. Conceptual diagram of the atom-holography microscope view more Credit: Hiroshi Daimon 【Key Points】 Three-dimensional atomic arrangements in nanoscale...
New “HULU” framework bridges atomistic foundation models and molecular simulations to accelerate clean energy materials discovery
image: HULU is a flexible Python framework that enables Monte Carlo adsorption simulations using advanced machine learning potentials. The figure...
Joint research team develops microwave-assisted rapid synthesis strategy for fluorescent polymer nanoparticles
image: The idea of physically entrapping fluorescent molecules by in-situ formed polymer chains during the microwave-mediated conversion of monomer emulsions...
B-doped carbon nanotubes for enhanced adsorption of NO3- and promoted electrocatalysis on transformation nitrate into ammonia
image: Boron-doped substrate boosts the NO3RR performance of metal oxide catalysts. view more Credit: Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press The...
Single-molecule spin devices set to revolutionize quantum computing and low-power electronics
image: By correlating molecular design with quantum spin effects, single-molecule spin devices can realize a variety of functional prototypes, including...
Oil droplets remodel themselves, swallow their surroundings like living cells
image: Microscopic oil droplets change shape simply by being exposed to a soap-like molecule, eventually closing into a sealed capsule that...
Mechanical strain creates chirality
image: Mechanical strain can deform a solid at the atomic level, forming a chiral structure. view more Credit: © Jörg Harms,...
Blue LED light sparks new chemical reaction that could speed up drug discovery
image: Image Credit: Yufei Zhang et al. ,Vicinal disubstitution of alkyl C–X synthons via alkene radical cation generation.Science0,eaef0766DOI:10.1126/science.aef0766. view more Credit:...
Flexible DNA transforms protein crystallization
For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms. Crystallization enables scientists...
Are gas turbines ready for the hydrogen economy?
image: Xizhen Dong characterized how hydrogen affects Nickel-base superalloys at elevated temperatures. view more Credit: Use of images is limited...
New antimicrobials may help combat deadly drug-resistant infections
Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Manchester report a strategy to engineer next-generation antifungals that are both...
Roadmap to Perfect Contacts in 2D Electronics, Breaking Key Barriers
Atomically thin electronics are inching toward a breakthrough—and the bottleneck is not the channel, but the contact. In graphene and...