Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 per cent of bacteria which ...

Researchers observe ultrafast processes of single molecules for the first time

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz Markus Koch, head of the research group Femtosecond Dynamics at the Institute of Experimental ...

Made to degrade (eventually)

Marine biodegradable plastics with high strength and water resistance developed from starch and celluloseCredit: Osaka University The main cause of ...

Advanced ‘super-planckian’ material exhibits LED-like light when heated

Unconventional material emits light that exceeds limits of natural lawCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- Could there be a ...

Photons and electrons one on one

The dynamics of electrons changes ever so slightly on each interaction with a photon; physicists at ETH Zurich have now ...

Device brings silicon computing power to brain research and prosthetics

Credit: Andrew Brodhead/Stanford News Service Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new device for connecting the brain directly to ...

On-demand glass is right around the corner

A project to create colloidal glasses characterized by a unidirectional stressCredit: @GiulioMonaco UniTrento Glasses used for camera lenses or reading ...

A pigment from ancient Egypt to modern microscopy

Göttingen research team produces new nanosheets for near infrared imagingCredit: University of Goettingen Egyptian blue is one of the oldest ...

A milestone in ultrafast gel fabrication

Counter-intuition disturbance-directed fabrication of self-healable noble metal gels for photo-assisted electrocatalysisCredit: Copyright: Ran DU et al. Matter 2020. Electrocatalysis is ...

Russian scientists propose new approach to measuring atoms

Scientists proposed a new method of statistical analysis of intermolecular interactions and sizes of atoms.Credit: ChenPhysChem Today, when new drugs ...

Waterborne polyurea/urethanes significantly reduce hydrate growth rate in pipelines

A paper appeared in Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering.Credit: Kazan Federal University Previously, KFU scientists were able to ...

Tiny double accelerator recycles energy

Proof of concept for cascaded terahertz accelerator using long pulsesCredit: DESY, Science Communication Lab A team of DESY scientists has ...

Surprise! Ammonia emitted from fertilized paddy fields mostly doesn’t end up in the air

Credit: Jianlin Shen Livestock production and nitrogen fertilizer used in croplands emit lots of ammonia, which is the most abundant ...

Ammonia has been wrongly missing in portraying air pollution impacts

Credit: Yuepeng Pan Nitrogen is essential for all living things. Synthetic fertilizer, which contains rich reactive nitrogen, has sustained food ...

Heterostructure and Q-factor engineering for low-threshold and persistent nanowire lasing

Credit: by Stefan Skalsky, Yunyan Zhang, Juan Arturo Alanis, H. Aruni Fonseka, Ana M. Sanchez, Huiyun Liu and Patrick Parkinson ...

New mechanism of optical gain in two-dimensional material requires only extremely low input power

Credit: by Zhen Wang†, Hao Sun†, Qiyao Zhang, Jiabin Feng, Jianxing Zhang, Yongzhuo Li, and Cun-Zheng Ning In a new ...

Symmetry-enforced three-dimension Dirac phononic crystals

Credit: BY Xiangxi Cai, Liping Ye, Chunyin Qiu, Meng Xiao, Rui Yu, Manzhu Ke, Zhengyou Liu The discovery of new ...

O-FIB: Far-field-induced near-field breakdown for direct nanowriting in an atmospheric environment

Credit: by Zhen-Ze Li, Lei Wang, Hua Fan, Yan-Hao Yu, Qi-Dai Chen, Saulius Juodkazis and Hong-Bo Sun Lasers are becoming ...

On-chip single-mode CdS nanowire laser

Credit: by Qingyang Bao, Weijia Li, Peizhen Xu, Ming Zhang, Daoxin Dai, Pan Wang, Xin Guo, and Limin Tong In ...

Coronavirus SARS-CoV2: BESSY II data accelerate drug development