Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: ©Science China Press A research group from Zhejiang University in China has found that the noncentrosymmetric compound CaPtAs is ...

Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devices

Researchers use a ferroelectric glass electrolyte within an electrochemical cell to create batteriesCredit: Braga et al. WASHINGTON, February 25, 2020 ...

Breaking the temperature barrier in small-scale materials testing

Credit: Photo by Steph Adams CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have demonstrated a new method for testing microscopic aeronautical materials at ...

Synthesizing a superatom: Opening doors to their use as substitutes for elemental atoms

Credit: Tokyo Tech Superatom is a name given to a cluster of atoms that seem to exhibit properties similar to ...

Turbomachine expander offers efficient, safe strategy for heating, cooling

Credit: Riley Barta/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new device to help homeowners cut electricity bills could also provide ...

Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstacles

Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. A key hurdle facing fusion devices called stellarators -- twisty facilities that seek to ...

APS tip sheet: Listening to bursting bubbles

Sound signatures from violent fluid events, like bubbles bursting, can be used to measure forces at work during these eventsCredit: ...

APS tip sheet: The neutron’s electric dipole moment

Techniques for studying the neutron's electrical charges have reached a new level of sensitivityCredit: C. Abel et al., Physical Review ...

A simple retrofit transforms electron microscopes into high-speed atom-scale cameras

Patented 'beam chopper' provides cost-effective way to investigate super-fast processes important for tomorrow's technologyCredit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National ...

Study puts spin into quantum technologies

The ability to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D material hexagonal boron-nitride demonstratedCredit: Dr M. Kianinia A team ...

Going super small to get super strong metals

Credit: Zhou et al You can't see them, but most of the metals around you--coins, silverware, even the steel beams ...

An ‘exceptionally stable’ single-atom catalyst

Single platinum atoms stabilized in C12A7 crystalsCredit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have shown that ...

Scientists develop a composite membrane for long-life zinc-based flow batteries

Credit: HU Jing Researchers led by Profs. LI Xianfeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese ...

Columbia team discovers new way to control the phase of light using 2D materials

Researchers use atomically thin materials -- 1/100,000 the size of a human hair -- to manipulate the phase of light ...

Short film of a magnetic nano-vortex

Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Claire Donnelly For the first time, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have recorded a "3D ...

Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes

Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organismsCredit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google ...

Scientists crack the mystery of liquid light interactions in organic materials, laying the ground

Credit: Skoltech A team of scientists from the Hybrid Photonics Laboratory at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) ...

Scientists predict state of matter that can conduct both electricity and energy perfectly

UChicago study addresses problem of generating and moving energy efficientlyCredit: University of Chicago Three scientists from the University of Chicago ...

Shaping the rings of molecules

Credit: Université de Montréal Macrocycles are molecules made of large rings of atoms. Despite being relatively big and flexible, the ...

Black phosphorous tunnel field-effect transistor as an alternative ultra-low power switch?