Chemistry
Incorporation of water molecules into layered materials impacts ion storage capability
Investigating the interplay between the structure of water molecules that have been incorporated into layered materials such as clays and...
Critical impacts of interfacial water on C–H activation in photocatalytic methane conversion
Non-thermal activation and utilization of methane, the main component of natural gas and a ubiquitous natural carbon resource, are among...
Squid tissues and chemistry combine for versatile hydrogels
The natural abilities of squid tissues and the creativity of chemists combine to take hydrogel research in new directions.Credit: Tasuku...
Simulations and experiments reveal unprecedented detail about water’s motion in salt water
In salt water solutions, water molecules rapidly move around salt ions at a scale of more than a trillion times...
Nearly 50-meter laser experiment sets record in University of Maryland hallway
It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a...
Vertical electrochemical transistor pushes wearable electronics forward
A transdisciplinary Northwestern University research team has developed a revolutionary transistor that is expected be ideal for lightweight, flexible, high-performance...
Active matter theory explains fire-ant group behavior
Ants are social insects and the Solenopsis invicta species —known as the fire ant— is no exception. The social interactions...
Malformed seashells, ancient sediment provide clues about Earth’s past
EVANSTON, Ill. — Nearly 100 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extreme environmental disruption that choked oxygen from the...
What makes brown rice healthy? Decoding the chemistry of its nutritional wealth
Asian diets feature rice as a staple grain, contributing towards nearly 90% of the world’s rice consumption. Brown rice, in...
New ‘chain mail’ material of interlocking molecules is tough, flexible and easy to make
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have created a new type of material from millions of identical, interlocking molecules that for...
Correlated rattling atomic chains reduce thermal conductivity of materials
A group of researchers has recently unveiled a novel mechanism that leads to further suppression of thermal conductivity in thermoelectric...
Interbreeding of white cotton lines produces a new cultivar whose fabric is naturally flame-resistant
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278696Credit: Thyssen et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278696 Article Title: Flame resistant cotton lines...
Exploring the features of music that people fall asleep to
A new study has identified several characteristics typical of music associated with sleep, such as being quieter and slower than...
Better hydrogen transfer brings better hydrogen evolution reaction performance
The electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is one of the most efficient methods for producing green hydrogen. However, the inefficient...
Underlying assumptions of air quality need to be redefined
The 40-meter-high monitoring tower of the Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory near the city center of Innsbruck in Austria, Europe, continuously provides data...
A new, better technology for X-ray laser pulses
The X-rays used to examine a broken leg in hospital are easy to produce. In industry, however, X-ray radiation of...
The rich meteorology of Mars studied in detail from the Perseverance rover
Perseverance is a NASA autonomous vehicle that arrived at the Jezero Crater (the bed of an ancient, now dried-up lake...
Data reveal a surprising preference in particle spin alignment
UPTON, NY—Given the choice of three different “spin” orientations, certain particles emerging from collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an...
Distinguishing between right and left with magnets
Chirality control of molecules and crystals is critical to multiple fields of research such as drug development and display device...
Blast chiller for the quantum world
With optomechanical experiments, scientists are trying to explore the limits of the quantum world and to create a foundation for...
