Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: ©Science China Press In turbulent combustion, the interaction between the strong nonlinear reaction source and turbulence leads to broad ...

Inhomogeneous-strain-induced magnetic vortex cluster in one-dimensional manganite wire

Credit: ©Science China Press Topologically stabilized spin structures at the nanoscale magnets, including domain walls, vortices and skyrmions, have recently ...

Oligomers observed mimicking the combination of DNA strands: Study

Credit: Monash University An international research team have for the first time observed dynamic covalent oligomers mimicking the combination of ...

Silver sawtooth creates valley-coherent light for nanophotonics

Credit: Han and Ye, University of Groningen. Scientists at the University of Groningen used a silver sawtooth nanoslit array to ...

iPS cells to regulate immune rejection upon transplantation

Credit: Hokkaido University Scientists suggest a new strategy that uses induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to regulate immune reaction to ...

Light burns with new acids

Credit: Tsuyoshi Kawai Researchers at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) report a photo-acid generator (PAG) that generates Lewis ...

Invisible X-rays turn blue

Credit: Tsuyoshi Kawai A new reaction system can detect X-rays at the highest sensitivity ever recorded by using organic molecules. ...

The power of going small: Copper oxide subnanoparticle catalysts prove most superior

Credit: Makoto Tanabe, Kimihisa Yamamoto Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have shown that copper oxide particles on the sub-nanoscale ...

Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics

Next-generation devices made with new 'peel and stack' method may include electronic chips worn on the skin. BRIEF HED: Flexible ...

Using neutrons and X-rays to analyze the aging of lithium batteries

Credit: T.Arlt, I. Manke/HZB, R. Ziesche/UCL Lithium batteries are found everywhere: They power smart phones, laptops, and electric bicycles and ...

UTA study examines potential sources of groundwater contamination in private wells

Perception vs. reality in groundwater contaminationCredit: UT Arlington A study led by environmental researchers at The University of Texas at ...

How iron carbenes store energy from sunlight — and why they aren’t better at it

These inexpensive photosensitizers could make solar power and chemical manufacturing more efficient; experiments at SLAC offer insight into how they ...

Scientists reveal whole new world of chemistry by stepping indoors

CSU researchers report on the chemistry of bleach cleaning as part of the HOMEChem experimentCredit: Callie Richmond Colorado State University ...

AOCS Research Awards go to five UMass Amherst food science Ph.D. students

Student researchers work in lab of renowned food scientist Julian McClementsCredit: UMass Amherst Five food science Ph.D. students at the ...

FEFU scientists developed method to build up functional elements of quantum computers

Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia), together with colleagues from FEB RAS, China, ...

What decides the ferromagnetism in the non-encapsulated few-layer CrI3

Credit: ©Science China Press Since the discovery of two ferromagnetic (FM) atomically thin CrI3 and Cr2Ge2Te6 in 2017 (Nature 2017, ...

Graphene mapping 50 times faster

Credit: ©Science China Press Graphene is always raising high expectations, as a strong, ultrathin, two-dimensional material that could also be ...

Setting up fundamental bases for information metasurface

Credit: ©Science China Press When illuminated by electromagnetic waves, subwavelength-scale particles of metasurface can couple the incident energy to free ...

Controllable functional ferroelectric domain walls under piezoresponse microscope

Credit: ©Science China Press Ferroelectric materials possessing high photoelectric, piezoelectric and dielectric response are widely applied in industrial products, such ...

Lithuanian scientists contributed to creating the world record breaking tandem solar cell