Chemistry
Cryo-imaging lifts the lid on fuel cell catalyst layers
Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC), which are being developed for use in electric vehicles, rely on nanoparticles called catalysts to...
New programmable smart fabric responds to temperature and electricity
A new smart material developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is activated by both heat and electricity, making...
Want to make better materials? Read between the lines. Or the “grain boundaries,” as they’re known in materials science.
The orientations of these infinitesimally small separations between individual “grains” of a polycrystalline material have big effects. In a material...
Putting hydrogen on solid ground: Simulations with a machine learning model predict a new phase of solid hydrogen
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to...
Test of strength of cells: new Heisenberg Professorship for Mechanics of Active Biomaterials at TU Dresden
Cells are the smallest living entities in our body. Every minute, body cells deform to perform their natural function. For...
HKU Mechanical Engineering team develops multifunctional tendon-mimetic hydrogels
Repairing or replacing injured tendons or similar load-bearing tissues represents one of the major challenges in clinical medicine. Natural tendons...
On-demand preparation of organosilicon reagents
National University of Singapore (NUS) scientists have demonstrated that stepwise customised functionalisation of multihydrosilanes to access fully substituted silicon compounds...
Highly sensitive and self-healing conductive hydrogels fabricated from cationic cellulose nanofiber-dispersed liquid metal for strain sensors
This study is led by Dr. Wenxia Liu (State Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of...
SwRI-led team successfully observes Australian eclipse in preparation for 2024 US eclipse
SAN ANTONIO – 4.20.23 -Scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) led a team in the unique Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse...
Defying gravity
Physicists from the University of Utrecht and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have observed - for...
First research flight images from innovative balloon-borne telescope
Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope which has begun capturing images of the Universe on its first research flight.Credit:...
Two qudits fully entangled
In the world of computing, we typically think of information as being stored as ones and zeros – also known...
Greenhouse gas release from permafrost is influenced by mineral binding processes
About a quarter of the organic carbon contained in ice-rich Arctic permafrost is more difficult for microorganisms to utilize. The...
Co-thermal in-situ reduction of inorganic carbonates to reduce carbon-dioxide emission
This study is led by Prof. Mingfei Shao and Prof. Xue Duan (College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology)....
Novel durable copper-aluminum-zinc shape memory alloys for energy-efficient refrigeration
The elastocaloric effect is a phenomenon where a material displays a temperature change when it is exposed to a mechanical...
Research team publishes review study of interfacial solar evaporation systems
Freshwater is essential for human life and the scarcity of freshwater is a critical issue in parts of the world...
One-step solution-coating method to advance perovskite solar cell manufacturing and commercialization
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are considered a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic technology with high efficiency and low production cost,...
Novel antibiotic-delivery system to target aggressive gum infections in adolescents
Aggressive periodontitis is a severe type of gum infection that causes the destruction of ligament and bone and can lead...
Is Deep Learning a necessary ingredient for Artificial Intelligence?
The earliest artificial neural network, the Perceptron, was introduced approximately 65 years ago and consisted of just one layer. However,...
Swedish quantum computer applied to chemistry for the first time
There are high expectations that quantum computers may deliver revolutionary new possibilities for simulating chemical processes. This could have a...
