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Dartmouth professor awarded $400k grant to conduct research on space station
Zi Chen to investigate forces behind early embryonic developmentCredit: Dartmouth Engineering Dartmouth Engineering Professor Zi Chen has received a $400,000...
New strategy to ‘buffer’ climate change: developing cheaper, eco-friendly solar cells
New study develops a novel eco-friendly buffer for solar panels, which could tip the scale in the renewable energy transitionCredit:...
Turning heat into power with efficient organic thermoelectric material
Credit: University of Groningen Thermoelectric materials can turn a temperature difference into electricity. Organic thermoelectric materials could be used to...
Cloth face masks that can be disinfected by the sun
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15540 During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have become accustomed...
Connecting two classes of unconventional superconductors
Credit: © MPI CPfS The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state...
Pioneering new circular economy centre in technology metals announced
Credit: Sam Broom-Fendley The University of Exeter will lead a pioneering new research centre, designed to revolutionize how crucial metals...
Optoelectronic detectors capable of perceiving light intensity and color
Credit: by Mei-Na Zhang, Xiaohan Wu, Antoine Riaud, Xiao-Lin Wang, Fengxian Xie, Wen-Jun Liu, Yongfeng Mei, David Wei Zhang and...
Electrochemical oxygen evolution on Hf2B2Ir5 electrode material
Credit: © MPI CPfS The water electrolysis is an electrochemical way for production of hydrogen, which is considered as one...
Graphene controls laser frequency combs in fiber
Credit: by Chenye Qin, Kunpeng Jia, Qianyuan Li, Teng Tan, Xiaohan Wang, Yanhong Guo, Shu-Wei Huang, Yuan Liu, Shining Zhu,...
Cascade amplified upconversion luminescence facilitating narrow band NIR photodetection
Credit: by Yanan Ji, Wen Xu, Nan Ding, Haitao Yang, Hongwei Song, Qingyun Liu, Hans Ã…gren, Jerker Widengren, Haichun Liu...
Dissecting colloidal glasses using laser as a lancet
IBS researchers in South Korea probe the cage formation of the glass at surgical precision and elucidate the onset of...
Intelligent surfaces signal better coverage
Credit: © 2020 KAUST Mustafa Kishk & Maha M. Kamal Specialized reflective panels located on top of buildings and deployed...
Scientists can now scoop contents of individual cells from their local environment
New method bridges in situ microscopy with single cell omicsCredit: Wheeler lab Scientists can now select individual cells from a...
Identifying the microscopic mechanism of vibrational energy harvesters
Familiarity with self-power generation devicesCredit: Nagoya University The Japanese research team elucidated the microscopic mechanism in which amorphous silica(1) becomes...
Observation of four-charm-quark structure
Credit: ©Science China Press The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons...
Interlayer ligand engineering of β-Ni(OH)2 for oxygen evolution reaction
Credit: ©Science China Press Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key process for many energy devices such as electrolyzers and...
Selective encapsulation of ultrafine Pd and Pt nanoparticles within the shallow layers of MOF
Credit: ©Science China Press Metal-based catalysts have shown considerable performances in heterogeneous catalysis for the production of various valuable products....
3D-printed weather stations could enable more science for less money
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Across the United States, weather stations made up of instruments and sensors monitor the conditions that...
Camel-fur-inspired technology harnesses insulation and evaporation to keep products cool
Credit: Zhengmao Lu and Ningxin Chen Scientists have developed a bilayer passive cooling technology inspired by the way camels stay...
Ultrafast laser experiments pave way to better industrial catalysts
Credit: none Arizona State University's Scott Sayres and his team have recently published an ultrafast laser study on uncharged iron...
