Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Study opens window into the landscape of extreme topological matterCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 26, 2021) ...

Cerium sidelines silver to make drug precursor

Rice University lab's process simplifies fluoroketone synthesisCredit: Illustration by Renee Man/@chemkitty HOUSTON - (Feb. 26, 2021) - Save your silver! ...

High- performance 3D printer for titanium structures and In situ synthesis of alloys

3D printer for high-speed printing of titanium structuresCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg ...

Army-funded researcher receives award for mathematical theory

Credit: Matt Perko, UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- A U.S. Army-funded researcher who developed ...

Finding their comfort zone

Artificial microswimmers slow down and accumulate in low-fuel regionsCredit: Courtesy photo A Mason Engineering researcher has discovered that artificial microswimmers ...

From microsaws to nanodrills: laser pulses act as subtle machining tools

Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulsesCredit: Daniel Flamm et al. If ...

Samara Polytech scientists have patented the TopCryst.Find_Topology service

It becomes possible to determine the crystal structure topology with the help of the programCredit: @SamaraPolytech Employees of the Samara ...

Novel catalysts improve efficiency of urea synthesis at ambient conditions

Credit: ZHANG Guangjin and YUAN Menglei Converting both nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added urea molecules via C-N ...

Nuclear physicists on the hunt for squeezed protons

Nuclear physicists crank up the energy to put the squeeze on the proton and its quarksCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab While ...

Scientists probe electronic angular momentum to a chemical reaction for the first time

Credit: DICP A chemical reaction can be understood in detail at the quantum state-resolved level, through a combined study of ...

Harnessing the power of proteins in our cells to combat disease

UNLV scientist Gary Kleiger at the forefront of a potential new drug modality; research published in the journal Nature.Credit: Lonnie ...

Theory could accelerate push for spintronic devices

Rice University models help ID materials for advanced electronics, computer memoriesCredit: Sunny Gupta/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2021) - ...

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