Rice’s Haotian Wang wins Packard fellowship
Five-year grant will support technology to turn greenhouse gases into fuelCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 15, 2020) -Haotian Wang ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
A new approach boosts lithium-ion battery efficiency and puts out fires, too
Adding polymers and fireproofing to a battery's current collectors makes it lighter, safer and about 20% more efficientCredit: Yusheng Ye/Stanford ...
Quantum engines with entanglement as fuel?
University of Rochester researcher receives $1 million grant to study quantum thermodynamicsCredit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster ...
Sprinkled with power: How impurities enhance a thermoelectric material at the atomic level
Scientists elucidate how antimony impurities improve the performance of magnesium silicide, a promising material for converting waste heat into electricityCredit: ...
LiU researchers first to develop an organic battery
Ion-selective electrocatalysis on conducting polymer electrodes -- improving the performance of redox flow batteriesCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at the Laboratory ...
Making new materials using AI
Credit: Si-Young Choi (POSTECH) There is an old saying, "If rubber is the material that opened the way to the ...
When Fock meets Landau: Topology in atom-photon interactions
Credit: @Science China Press Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, topological phases of electrons have become a major ...
Ultra-sensitive nanothermometer under ambient conditions
Credit: @Science China Press Nanoscale temperature measurement with high sensitivity is important to investigating many phenomena such as heat dissipation ...
Turning excess noise into signal
Credit: by Aaron M. Kho, Tingwei Zhang, Jun Zhu, Conrad W. Merkle, Vivek J. Srinivasan During the early 1800s, the ...
What laser color do you like?
Microchip devices produce a wide range of huesCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and ...
Process to recover metals from batteries licensed by Momentum Technologies
Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Momentum Technologies Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based materials science company that is focused on ...
Design and test potential COVID-19 treatments from your phone
The ViDok app crowdsources the drug discovery processCredit: Courtesy of Thanh Truong. You're invited to join the search for COVID-19 ...
A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe’s missing mass
Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matterCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
UNLV and University of Rochester physicists observe room-temperature superconductivity
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, opens door for reimagining the energy grid, technology, societyCredit: Josh Hawkins/UNLV Photo Services ...
COVID-19 rapid test has successful lab results, research moves to next stages
University of Nevada, Reno engineers and virologists team up for novel approachCredit: Photo courtesy of University of Nevada, Reno. RENO, ...
Temperature evolution of impurities in a quantum gas
What role does heat play in quantum impurity studies?Credit: FLEET A new, Monash-led theoretical study advances our understanding of its ...
From hurricanes to earthquakes, space station experiment overcomes challenges
Few researchers have had to overcome hurricanes and earthquakes, though, just two of the hurdles a team of chemists in ...
Army senior scientist earns Teddy Award
Credit: U.S. Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - A U.S. Army senior scientist earned a 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Government Leadership ...
Gold- and bronze-like paints that don’t contain metal
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02752 Lustrous metallic paints are used to enhance the beauty of many products, ...
Wearable circuits printed directly on human skin
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c11479 Wearable electronics are getting smaller, more comfortable and increasingly ...
