Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Information about the molecular shape of the viruses that cause COVID-19, SARS, and MERS reveals structural similarities that suggest possible ...

Prometheus Fuels licenses energy-saving ORNL ethanol-to-jet-fuel process

Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Prometheus Fuels has licensed an ethanol-to-jet-fuel conversion process developed by researchers at the ...

Ultra-fast magnetic switching with potential to transform fibre optical communications

Credit: CRANN, and Trinity College Dublin. Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered ...

Single photons from a silicon chip

HZDR team develops novel source for quantum light particlesCredit: HZDR/Juniks Quantum technology holds great promise: Just a few years from ...

Princeton lab discovers small “Cain-and-Abel” molecule

Streptosactin named the first small molecule in the human microbiome to exhibit fratricidal activity.Credit: Figure courtesy of Leah Bushin. A ...

New on/off functionality for fast, sensitive, ultra-small technologies

A research team including Osaka University reports an ultra-small actuator with the fastest on/off switch and most precise position control ...

Scientists develop a technique to dynamically curve a photon jet

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with international colleagues have found a simple technique to dynamically curve a photonic jet, ...

Ultrahigh energy density transition-metal-free cathodes designed by band structure engineering

Credit: ©Science China Press The growing demands for ultrahigh energy density batteries used in electronic devices, electrical vehicles, and large-scale ...

HKU Professor Zheng Xiao GUO elected Member of Academia Europaea

Credit: The University of Hong Kong Professor Zheng Xiao GUO, Associate Dean for China & Global of Faculty of Science ...

NUS Researchers propose new perspective in nurturing lattice Boltzmann methods

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) share their recent progress in constructing numerical models for fluid mechanics simulations ...

The future of biofuels in the dark

Fellowship funds experiments in growing algae without sunlightCredit: Elizabeth Hann/UCR Algae could compete with petroleum as the fuel of the ...

CCNY engineer Xi Chen and partners create new shape-changing crystals

Credit: Image courtesy: Tong Wang Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial ...

New method to design diamond lattices and other crystals from microscopic building blocks

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University An impressive array of architectural forms can be produced from the popular ...

Physicists “trick” photons into behaving like electrons using a “synthetic” magnetic field

Credit: University of Exeter Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a "synthetic" Lorentz force -- which ...

Reducing nitrogen with boron and beer

Credit: Team Braunschweig Humankind is reliant on the ammonium in synthetic fertiliser for food. However, producing ammonia from nitrogen is ...

Single atom-thin platinum makes a great chemical sensor

Credit: JO Yxell/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, together with colleagues from other universities, have ...

Tandem devices feel the heat

Infinite chains of hydrogen atoms have surprising properties, including a metallic phase