Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: Professor Luke Guddat An international team of researchers has tested more than 10,000 compounds to identify six drug candidates ...

To make or to break: Novel reversible technique produces acyl fluoride using rare metal

Scientists devise a new technique to produce value-added complex acyl fluorides from commercially available simple acyl fluorideCredit: Tokyo University of ...

Researchers demonstrate a platform for future optical transistors

Researchers have demonstrated a new efficient implementation, where photons couple to excitons in single-layer semiconductors.Credit: Department of Physics, ITMO University ...

Broad spectrum

Novel hybrid material proves an efficient photodetectorCredit: HZDR / Juniks Digital cameras as well as many other electronic devices need ...

3D-printed corals could improve bioenergy and help coral reefs

Credit: University of Cambridge Researchers from Cambridge University and University of California San Diego have 3D printed coral-inspired structures that ...

X-ray vision through the water window

The development of the first high-repetition-rate laser source that produces coherent soft x-rays spanning the entire 'water window' heralds the ...

Rice chemist wins grant to simplify drug design

Fed award to László Kürti will support sophisticated, simplified drug precursorsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 8, 2020) - ...

Belle II yields first results in search of the Z’ boson

The Belle II experiment started about one year ago. Physical Review Letters has now published the initial results of the ...

Harnessing the power of electricity-producing bacteria for programmable ‘biohybrids’

Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22116 Someday, microbial cyborgs -- bacteria combined with electronic devices -- could ...

A step ahead in the race toward ultrafast imaging of single particles

Credit: Stacy Huang Using a combination of experimental and computational data, researchers discover paths to optimize pulses from highly intense ...

Tracking Southern Hemisphere black carbon to Antarctic snow

Credit: Luciano Marquetto Black carbon (BC) measurements in Antarctica are still scarce, but necessary to understand the particle's effect in ...

Film photosensitizer: High efficient singlet oxygen generation

Credit: ©Science China Press Photosensitized generation of singlet oxygen attracted a great deal of interest reaching applications in various fields ...

Tracking the atomic pathways by in-situ liquid cell TEM

Credit: ©Science China Press Recently, platinum-containing core-shell structures with tunable magnetic and catalytic properties have attracted intensive attentions and offered ...

Next gen solar cells perform better when there’s a camera around

Researchers find a simple way to detect tiny imperfections that affect performanceCredit: Exciton Science A literal "trick of the light" ...

KIST develops foldable and washable luminescent film

Near-infrared sensors and displays developed based on the maximized efficiency of optical wavelength conversion. A flexible, transparent, and washable film, ...

Using nano-scale spintronics, researchers aim to build novel artificial brain

New research project to develop novel AI hardware; a completely new kind of computer system that mimics how the human ...

Neutron research: Magnetic monopoles detected in Kagome spin ice systems

April 7, 2020

Credit: Uni Augsburg Magnetic monopoles were detected for the first time worldwide at the Berlin Neutron Source BER II in ...

Evaluating embryo quality with ultrasensitive protein detection