Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: by Sohail A. Jalil, Bo Lai, Mohamed ElKabbash, Jihua Zhang, Erik M. Garcell, Subhash Singh & Chunlei Guo The ...

MOF@hollow mesoporous carbon spheres as bifunctional electrocatalysts

Credit: ©Science China Press With the quick development of industrial technology, the energy crisis caused by the shortage of fossil ...

Direct synthesis of azulene continues to reveal alluring properties

Credit: Shinshu University Azulene is a pretty neat substance. As the name suggests, it displays a peculiar blue color. First ...

Both Sn and Zn single-atoms on CuO catalyst synergistically promote dimethyldichlorosilane synthesis

Credit: ©Science China Press Because of their maximum atom-utilization efficiency and unique catalytic properties, single-atom catalysts (SACs) have sparked intense ...

A gold butterfly can make its own semiconductor skin

Credit: Fujiwara H., et al, Nano Letters. December 23, 2019. A nanoscale gold butterfly provides a more precise route for ...

The unchanging viscosity of cells

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The only thing that appears to be unchanging in living cells is that they are ...

Insilico Medicine publishes molecular structures for the key protein target of 2019-nCoV

Insilico Medicine uses the latest advances in next-generation artificial intelligence to generate novel molecular structuresCredit: Insilico Medicine February 6, 2020 ...

Boston College chemist Jia Niu receives NSF CAREER Young Investigator Award

NSF grant will support research to grow polymer chains more uniformlyCredit: Peter Julian/Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. -- Boston College ...

Army scientists look inside batteries with a molecular eye

Credit: U.S. Army photo by Jhi Scott ADELPHI, Md. (Feb. 5, 2020) - Scientists are closer to understanding exactly what ...

The shape of water: What water molecules look like on the surface of materials

Scientist combine data analysis techniques with molecular dynamics simulations to understand the structure of water on material surfaces.Credit: Tokyo University ...

High-precision imaging revealed what holds on the smallest light responsive gold chain

Manufacture of chemical sensors and catalysts based on gold nanoclusters gained new light from recent cutting-edge researchCredit: The University of ...

How manipulating ligand interactions in metal clusters can spur advances in nanotechnology

Researchers uncover how interactions among ligands dictate the final structure of metal clusters, which have various applications in modern electronic ...

Cathode ‘defects’ improve battery performance

A counterintuitive finding revealed by high-precision powder diffraction analyses suggests a new strategy for building better batteriesCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

Astronomers discover unusual monster galaxy in the very early universe

XMM-2599 lived fast and died young, says UC Riverside-led international teamCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international ...

Improving adhesives for wearable sensors

Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03305 By conveniently and painlessly collecting data, wearable sensors create many new possibilities ...

Nanoparticles produced from burning coal result in damage to mice lungs

Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech scientists have discovered that incredibly small particles of an unusual and highly toxic titanium oxide ...

CIGSe thin-film solar cells: EU Sharc25 project increases efficiency

Credit: HZB/Ingo Kniest Producing thin-film solar modules requires much less energy than conventional wafer-based Si PV modules, and therefore their ...

Programmed vascular endothelium remodeling using a remote-controlled ‘smart’ platform

Credit: ©Science China Press According to the statistics from World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular disease has become the leading cause ...

Fastest high-precision 3D printer

KIT scientists develop new 3D system to print structures of submicrometer accuracy at record speed -- Publication in Advanced Functional ...

DNA-based nanorobot to fight cancer: New concept proposed by ITMO University researchers