Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

The discovery could lead to faster and cheaper data storage, better sensors and other advances in electronicsCredit: Photo provided FAYETTEVILLE, ...

Scientists grow optical chips in a petri dish

A team of scientists led by ITMO researchers proposed a quick and affordable method to create optical chips right in ...

The smallest motor in the world

On the trail of enigmatic quantum phenomenaCredit: Empa The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: ...

Flushing toilets create clouds of virus-containing particles

Coronavirus could be transmitted through a long-lasting cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets ejected from a flushing toilet.Credit: J.-X. Wang WASHINGTON, ...

Quantum material research facilitates discovery of better materials that benefit our society

Quantum material research connecting physicists in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai facilitates discovery of better materials that benefit our societyCredit: ...

Scientists discover a long-sought-after nitrogen allotrope in black phosphorus structure

Credit: Cheng Ji Graphene, or a single layer of graphite, has a set of novel properties that have attracted tremendous ...

Determining effective magnetic moment of multicore nanoparticles

Magnetic nanoparticles can be used for drug targeting, storage media, moreCredit: Frank Ludwig WASHINGTON, June 16, 2020 -- Magnetic nanoparticles, ...

A new family of nanocars ready for the next nano Grand Prix

Credit: G. Rapenne, NAIST and UPS Gwénaël Rapenne, Professor at NAIST (Nara, Japan) and University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) - ...

HKU scientists uncover new mechanism for balancing protein stability during neuronal development

An unexpected heat shock to neurons: HKU scientists and collaborators uncover a new mechanism for balancing protein stability during neuronal ...

All of the performance, none of the fuss: Nitrile hydrogenation done right

Osaka University researchers synthesize an easy-to-handle nano-cobalt phosphide catalyst for efficient hydrogenation of nitriles to primary aminesCredit: Osaka University Osaka, ...

Borrowing from robotics, scientists automate mapping of quantum systems

Understanding the character of hardware errors helps stabilise the technologyCredit: University of Sydney Scientists at the University of Sydney have ...

Support drives fate of protected gold nanoclusters as catalysts

Credit: The University of Jyväskylä In collaboration with experimentalists from Ghent University, Belgium and Utrecht University, Netherlands, researchers at the ...

MIT, NIST create first room-temp ‘magnon switch’ with industrially useful properties

Build approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips.Credit: N. Hanacek / NIST Scientists ...

The many lifetimes of plastics

Infographics strive to give us a sense of how long plastic goods will last in the environment but is this ...

Excitons form superfluid in certain 2D combos

Rice University researchers find 'paradox' in ground-state bilayersCredit: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 15, 2020) - Mixing and ...

Why pulsars shine bright: A half-century-old mystery solved

Intense radio emissions produced by the fast-spinning stars are caused by newborn particles interacting with powerful electromagnetic fields, new plasma ...

Melting a crystal topologically

Credit: Huang Ping (Xi'an Jiaotong University) The introduction of topology, a branch of mathematics focusing on the properties of "knots", ...

Research reveals how material defects influence melting process

Credit: Ling Lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory ...

Superlens squeezes light into nanospace

Plasmon nanojet: Physicists implement efficient mechanism for subwavelength focusing of plasmonsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian and Danish researchers have ...

A phase battery for quantum technologies