Unique new antiviral treatment made using sugar
New antiviral materials made from sugar have been developed to destroy viruses on contact and may help in the fight ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
What a pair! Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information
Credit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time ...
Scientists discover how malaria parasites import sugar
Credit: David Drew The consumption of sugar is a fundamental source of fuel in most living organisms. In the malaria ...
NRL researchers’ golden touch enhances quantum technology
Credit: Jeremy Robinson/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON - Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory discovered a new platform for ...
UB chemist awarded $2 million NIH grant for enzyme research
One major objective is to understand molecular interactions that enable enzymes to accelerate chemical reactionsCredit: Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki / ...
An ultrafast microscope for the quantum world
Processes taking place inside tiny electronic components or in molecules can now be filmed at a resolution of a few ...
Hybrid technique to produce stronger nickel for auto, medical, manufacturing
Credit: Qiang Li/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Nickel is a widely used metal in the manufacturing industry for both ...
It’s closeness that counts: how proximity affects the resistance of graphene
Research team led by the University of Göttingen observes greater variation than expectedCredit: Georg A Traeger/Anna Sinterhauf - University of ...
A nanoscale lattice of palladium and yttrium makes for a superlative carbon-linking catalyst
Credit: Nature Communications A group of materials scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology has shown that a palladium-based intermetallic electride, ...
Stress test reveals graphene won’t crack under pressure
Researchers have discovered that the carbon-based material can withstand more than one billion cycles of high stress before breakingCredit: Daria ...
Guardian angel of the eye
Protective protein in the eye lens affects protein oxidationCredit: Christoph Kaiser / TUM The lens of the human eye comprises ...
UVphotonics to showcase custom UV LEDs and modules at Photonics West
Credit: FBH/P. Immerz UVphotonics will present novel UV LED developments with emission wavelengths from 330 nm to as low as ...
To make amino acids, just add electricity
Researchers at Kyushu University achieve highly efficient amino acid synthesis from biomass-derivable acids and water using electric energyCredit: Szabolcs Arany, ...
Molecule modification could improve reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel
The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel could become safer and more efficient in future after researchers found a way to ...
Helsinki declaration on planetary health calls for commitment from the EU
Credit: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare Scientific evidence shows that human activities impact global warming, biodiversity loss, land degradation, ...
Hermetically sealed semi-conductors
New encapsulation technique protects electronic properties of sensitive materialsCredit: HZDR / Sahneweiß Tomorrow's electronics are getting ever smaller. Researchers are ...
Color-changing bandages sense and treat bacterial infections
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b01104 According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of ...
Microplastics from ocean fishing can ‘hide’ in deep sediments
Credit: Yinghui Wang Microplastic pollution in the world's oceans is a growing problem, and most studies of the issue have ...
Researchers generalize Fourier’s heat equation, explaining hydrodynamic heat propagatio
Theory is in striking agreement with pioneering experimental results in graphite published last yearCredit: @Michele Simoncelli, EPFL Fourier's well-known heat ...
A better building block for creating new materials
Credit: Felice Macera When chemists or engineers want to make a new type of material, they head to the laboratory ...
