Isolating an elusive missing link
ICIQ scientists from the Lloret-Fillol group have, for the first time, isolated and fully characterised an elusive intermediate in the ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Less is more? New take on machine learning helps us “scale up” phase transitions
Features of large systems yielded from tiny simulations with super-resolution techniques Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have ...
Baylor study uses candy-like models to make STEM accessible to visually impaired students
Baylor researchers, led by Bryan Shaw, found oral tactile visualization of complex 3D structures to be as accurate as eyesight ...
Scientists develop transparent electrode that boosts solar cell efficiency
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Developing new ultrathin metal electrodes has allowed researchers to create semitransparent perovskite solar cells that are ...
Electrons waiting for their turn: New model explains 3D quantum material
This new 3D effect can be the foundation for topological quantum phenomena, which are believed to be particularly robust and ...
The dark matter particle explorer has measured high-precision cosmic ray helium energy spectrum
Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV for the first ...
High-capacity electrodes by valence engineering developed for desalination
Recently, the researchers from Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of ...
Proton’s travel route in polymers could lead the way to clean fuels
Researchers explore proton transport in thin film polymers containing various concentrations of an organic acid group found in biomaterials Ishikawa, ...
Researchers build structured, multi-part nanocrystals with super light-emitting properties
AMES, Iowa - Researchers have developed new types of materials that combines two or three types of nanoparticles into structures ...
Cheap alloy rivals expensive platinum to boost fuel cells
As the cleanest renewable energy, hydrogen energy has attracted special attention in the research. Yet the commercialization of traditional proton ...
Danish invention preserves muscle mass in COVID-19 patients
Researchers from Aarhus University have developed electronic support stockings and tested them on bed-ridden Covid patients at Copenhagen University Hospitals. ...
Study of Fe2+ ions contributes to further understanding of magnetoelectric coupling
A paper by Kazan Federal University saw light in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter The researchers developed a microscopic theory ...
DNA-based material with tunable properties
While DNA is often idealised as the "molecule of life", it is also a highly sophisticated polymer that can be ...
Safe laboratory-made molecules for global vaccination success
Chemists succeed in artificially manufacturing important building blocks for mRNA vaccines Chemists at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have, in ...
Engineered defects in crystalline material boosts electrical performance
AMES, Iowa - Materials engineers don't like to see line defects in functional materials. The structural flaws along a one-dimensional ...
Scientists earn early career awards
Five-year funding boosts Marcel Baer, Nathan Tallent, and Ben Loer A trio of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have ...
Astonishing quantum experiment in Science raises questions
Quantum systems are considered extremely fragile. Even the smallest interactions with the environment can result in the loss of sensitive ...
Fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria has a glowing new weapon
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, Texas -- In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, ...
Comprehensive electronic-structure methods review featured in Nature Materials
Credit: @Nicola Marzari Over the past 20 years, first-principles simulations have become powerful, widely used tools in many, diverse fields ...
Reaping the benefits of noise
AMOLF scientists unravel noise-assisted signal amplification in systems with memoryCredit: AMOLF Interacting Photons group Signals can be amplified by an ...
