High hopes for new-age rubber
'Self-repairing' material has many industrial usesCredit: Flinders University Imagine a self-repairing rubber, or super-adhesive made entirely from waste materials. It ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
A new look into the sources and impacts of greenhouse gases in China
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences China's implementation of a national carbon trading market to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires ...
Lighting up cells with genetically-encoded X-ray-sensitive probes
Credit: ©Science China Press Microscopic visualization of sub-cellular structures and constituents plays a central role in cell biology. Synchrotron-based X-ray ...
Theory of detonation-driven hypervelocity shock tunnels and its demonstration
Credit: ©Science China Press Many 21st century challenges exist in science and technology, and one of these is the hypersonic ...
Formate dehydrogenase reduces carbon dioxide to formic acid
A giant leap for artificial photosynthesis research!Credit: Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Osaka City University Professor Yutaka Amao of the ...
Superconductors with ‘zeitgeist’ — When materials differentiate between past and future
Credit: Copyright: Hans-Henning Klauss What happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow are usually two different and quite independent matters. ...
Highly efficient charge-to-spin interconversion in graphene heterostructures
Researchers present a new route for designing a graphene-based active spintronic componentCredit: KAIST KAIST physicists described a route to design ...
Efficient, ‘green’ quantum-dot solar cells exploit defects
Quantum-dot approach shows promise for a new type of toxic-element-free, inexpensive, defect-tolerant solar cellsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Novel quantum ...
Scientists break the link between a quantum material’s spin and orbital states
The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices based on orbitronics that could be ...
Big data and synthetic chemistry could fight climate change and pollution
University of South Carolina chemists look to the future of materials designCredit: University of South Carolina COLUMBIA, S.C. -- May ...
Using big data to design gas separation membranes
Columbia engineers apply machine learning techniques to narrow down and speed up the development of new materials for removing CO2 ...
Observation of intervalley transitions can boost valleytronic science and technology
UC Riverside-led research shows these transitions can emit lightCredit: Erfu Liu, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international research team ...
Controlling cells with light
A research team from Jena, Munich and New York develops an active substance that controls an important component of the ...
Light, fantastic: the path ahead for faster, smaller computer processors
Australian and German researchers build modular bridge design for nanoscale photonic chipCredit: Louise Cooper/University of Sydney Light is emerging as ...
McMaster chemists develop foolproof new test to track the fats we eat
Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University A team of researchers at McMaster University has developed a reliable and accurate blood test ...
Quantifying the impact of interventions
Göttingen team analyzes the progression of the epidemicCredit: (c) MPIDS Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization ...
Scientists collaborate to create new physics-based technology for COVID-19 detection
Credit: Photo courtesy of Northern Arizona University One of the most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the ...
‘Hot and messy’ entanglement of 15 trillion atoms
Credit: ICFO Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become ...
New algorithm predicts optimal materials among all possible compounds
Credit: Zahed Allahyari and Artem R. Oganov / NPJ Computational Materials Skoltech researchers have offered a solution to the problem ...
2D sandwich sees molecules with clarity
Rice University engineers adapt 2D 'sandwich' for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopyCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 14, 2020) - A ...
