Chemistry
Scientists to discover the unique ductile properties of aluminum
During experiments on high-performance wire arc additive manufacturing researchers produced a metal with unique ductilityCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic...
Samara Polytech scientists studied a new compound for lithium and sodium-ion batteries
The sample was first obtained by quenchingCredit: @SamaraPolytech Cathode materials based on sodium and d-metals fluorophosphates are in great demand...
Novel alkaline hydrogel advances skin wound care
Scientists, including an undergraduate student, develop a novel method to produce an alkaline hydrogel that could be applied to healing...
Sm(Fe0.8Co0.2)12 with a lean rare earth content exhibits superb magnetism
Compound may magnetically outperform neodymium magnetsCredit: NIMS NIMS and Tohoku Gakuin University have developed a boron-doped anisotropic Sm(Fe0.8Co0.2)12 thin film...
Tailored hardening of ZrCuAl bulk metallic glass induced by 2D gradient rejuvenation
Credit: Tohoku University A team at Tohoku University have perfected a new heat treatment technique with rapid heating and asymmetrical...
New device can measure toxic lead within minutes
Researchers create portable lab-on-a-chip that could detect many contaminantsCredit: Azam Gholizadeh Rutgers researchers have created a miniature device for measuring...
Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates
Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermiaCredit: JAXA/NASA Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as...
Thin layer protects battery, allows cold charging
Credit: Donghai Wang, Penn State In the search for a reliable, quick-charging, cold-weather battery for automobiles, a self-assembling, thin layer...
Revised code could help improve efficiency of fusion experiments
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications An international team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's...
Researchers introduce new theory to calculate emissions liability
Credit: Michigan Tech A comparison of the results for conventional point source pollution and bottleneck carbon emissions sources shows that...
Three-dimensional quantum Hall effect and global picture of edge states in Weyl semimetals
Credit: International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University Since Von Klitzing discovered the quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron...
Universities join forces to develop materials for the fight against COVID-19
Credit: Virginia Tech Researchers around the world are racing to find treatments to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused...
A galaxy’s stop-and-start young radio jets
Very long baseline array reveals object's historyCredit: Lister, et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF In this image, made with the National...
NASA missions explore a ‘TIE Fighter’ active galaxy
Credit: NRAO Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has...
Small quake clusters can’t hide from AI
Small quake clusters can't hide from AI Rice researchers use deep learning to find signs were present before deadly Greenland...
New method to track ultrafast change of magnetic state
International research team logs emission of terahertz radiationCredit: Image: Bielefeld University/W. Zhang An international team of physicists from Bielefeld University,...
New insights into lithium-ion battery failure mechanism
Credit: University of Cambridge Researchers have identified a potential new degradation mechanism for electric vehicle batteries - a key step...
Less is more: A soft, self-actuated pump to simplify mechatronic devices
Scientists develop a soft hydrogel driven by an oscillatory chemical reaction to produce an autonomous integrated pump for microfluidic applicationsCredit:...
Hydrochloric acid boosts catalyst activity
Hydrochloric acid treatment improves catalysts for removing sulfur from crude oilCredit: Manuel Wagenhofer/TUM A research team from the Technical University...
Battery life for wearable electronic devices could be improved
Credit: WMG, University of Warwick Researchers in WMG and the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick have found...
