Chemistry
Orderly arranged bead-chain ternary nanocomposites for supercapacitors
Credit: Author In a paper published in NANO, a group of researchers from Jiangsu University of Technology, China have developed...
Chemical thermometers take temperature to the nanometric scale
Credit: Ridier et al. The miniaturisation of electronic components coupled with their increasing integration density has considerably expanded heat flows,...
Key technology for mass-production of lignin-bio-aviation fuels for reducing greenhouse gas
Technology for reducing the viscosity of lignin oil from wood wastes with a high potential for industrial applications. Potential for...
New study provides evidence for decades-old theory to explain the odd behaviors of water
Study detects the critical point between 2 liquid forms of waterCredit: Reprinted with permission from PG Debenedetti et al, Science...
Studying small to learn big
As the Nathan Isgur Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Experiment, Dien Nguyen will probe atomic nuclei to learn more about how...
Skoltech scientists use ML to optimize hydraulic fracturing design for oil wells
Credit: Skoltech Skoltech researchers and their industry colleagues have created a data-driven model that can forecast the production from an...
Gel that breaks down, puts itself back together could improve delivery of oral drugs
In research published in Soft Matter, Lehigh University rheologists mimic pH environment of GI tract to shed light on pharmaceutical...
Scientists discover how deep-sea, ultra-black fish disappear
Ultra-black fish skin absorbs more than 99.5% of light in a new, extremely efficient way, a discovery that may advance...
Physicists celebrate Japan collider record
Particle accelerator breaks world record for collisions, raising tantalizing possibilities for new physicsCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative University of Cincinnati physicists...
How galaxies die: New insights into the quenching of star formation
A simple model explains a wide range of observations by describing the contest between galaxy halos and their central black...
Robust laser technology for climate satellites
Credit: © FBH/schurian.com The Franco-German satellite MERLIN is due to be launched into space in 2025 to measure the methane...
Polymers self-assembling like links of a chain for innovative materials
Nature just published the research on unprecedented "Self-assembled poly-catenanes"Credit: Politecnico di Torino The "nanolimpiad", as the complex structure of self-assembled...
Solid-state intramolecular motions in continuous fibers for fluorescent humidity sensor
Credit: ©Science China Press Taking advantages of intramolecular motion of D-A based aggregation-induced emission (AIE) molecular rotors and one-dimensional (1D)...
Quantum simulation: Particle behavior near the event horizon of block hole
Credit: ©Science China Press The vast universe can always arise people's infinite imagination and yearning. Black hole, as one of...
Exotic neutrinos will be difficult to ferret out
Credit: Sources: Cyfronet, AGH An international team tracking the 'new physics' neutrinos has checked the data of all the relevant...
New very short-lived isotope 222Np is observed
Credit: IMP In a recent study, researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Science...
Lesion of doom — how a parasitic bacterium induces blood vessel formation to cause lesions
Scientists gain insights into how pathogenic bacteria of the genus Bartonella give rise to lesions in the human body, opening...
‘Bystander’ Cs meet their match in gene-editing technique
Rice biomolecular engineers' tool sets precisely fix cytosine mutations in human genomeCredit: Gao Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 15, 2020)...
Penn researchers find three distinct immune responses for sicker COVID-19 patients
New immune profiles could help predict disease and guide treatments, suggests two Penn studiesCredit: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of...
Scientists open new window into the nanoworld
Credit: Kapteyn/Murnane Group/JILA University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials...
