Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Supported by a major multi-year funding, the collaboration seeks to change our understanding and control of wave propagation, enabling leapfrog ...

New compressor delivers above-terawatt 1.5-cycle pulses at kilohertz repetition rate

Credit: MBI Researchers at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have reached a new ...

Brexit’s and research networks: Lower efficiency, reorganization of research communities

An analysis of 19,200 private companies, research organizations, public entities and higher education institutions involved in Horizon 2020 projects shows ...

Towards a green future: Efficient laser technique can convert cellulose into biofuel

Scientists developed a novel laser-based strategy for the effective degradation of cellulose into useful productsCredit: Tokyo University of Science With ...

Lack of damage after secondary impacts surprises researchers

Study on damage caused by high-velocity impacts provides answers about how materials exposed to secondary shocks recompactCredit: David Jones WASHINGTON, ...

Lehigh University awarded state grant to develop coronavirus-killing functional material

With support from Manufacturing PA Innovation Program, industry-academic partnership through Lehigh's Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) will work ...

Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst

Rice U. lab unveils catalyst that can break problematic C-F bondsCredit: H. Robatjazi/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 22, 2020) -- ...

New design for ‘optical ruler’ could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, telecommunications

Credit: NIST Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great ...

SLAC and Stanford scientists home in on pairs of atoms that boost a catalyst’s activity

They discovered that the messy environment of a chemical reaction can actually change the shape of a catalytic nanoparticle in ...

Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itself

Light interacts with itself to form self-sustaining waves in an artificial 'topological' materialCredit: Rechtsman Laboratory, Penn State Laser light traveling ...

Like oil and water

Pitt ChemE professor receives $110k ACS PRF grant for novel 3D-printed oil-water separating membrane for gas and petroleum industryCredit: University ...

Experimentally identifying effective theories in many-body systems

Heidelberg researchers develop new method and demonstrate its application in experimentsCredit: Photo: Alexis Bonnin One goal of science is to ...

Product recommendation systems can help with search of antiviral drugs

Credit: Skoltech Scientists from Skoltech and the Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products of RAS ...

Catalyzing a green future

A fresh twist in chiral topology

Credit: © MPI CPfS The concept of chirality is well-established in science: when an object cannot be superimposed on its ...

World’s fastest Bose-Einstein condensate

New research published in Nature Communications can make elusive state of matter in record timeCredit: Aaro Väkeväinen and Konstantinos Daskalakis/ ...

Dirac electrons come back to life in magic-angle graphene

A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer grapheneCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science In 2018 it was discovered that ...

Scientists support the use of ultraviolet light to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission indoors

Credit: Image sketches by Nacho Gaubert. The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is posing an extraordinary challenge that requires swift worldwide action for ...

Preventing lithium loss for high-capacity lithium-ion batteries

A novel pretreatment strategy resolves a long-standing issue of silicon anode materials. This solution-based strategy enables simple and safe processing ...

Breakthrough discovery to transform prostate cancer treatment