Respiratory droplet motion, evaporation and spread of COVID-19-type pandemics
Mathematical model sheds light on the motion and evaporation of respiratory droplets responsible for disease transmissionCredit: Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, Saptarshi Basu, ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Optoelectronic parametric oscillator
Credit: by Tengfei Hao, Qizhuang Cen, Shanhong Guan, Wei Li, Yitang Dai, Ninghua Zhu, and Ming Li Parametric oscillators are ...
Northwestern launches a national resource to unlock role of metals in human health
Partners include Argonne National Laboratory and leading research universitiesCredit: Sample courtesy of the Kozorovitskiy and O'Halloran groups, analysis software from ...
No touching: Skoltech researchers find contactless way to measure thickness of carbon nanotube films
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Scientists from Skoltech and their colleagues from Russia and Finland have figured out a non-invasive ...
Implants: Can special coatings reduce complications after implant surgery?
Credit: Hala Al Khoury / Uni Halle New coatings on implants could help make them more compatible. Researchers at the ...
Cartwheeling light reveals new optical phenomenon
Rice University study finds novel type of polarized light-matter interactionCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 29, 2020) - A ...
Osmotic stress identified as stimulator of cellular waste disposal
Credit: Tania Lopez-Hernandez Cellular waste disposal, where autophagy and lysosomes interact, performs elementary functions, such as degrading damaged protein molecules, ...
Understanding of relaxor ferroelectric properties could lead to many advances
Credit: MRI, Penn State A new fundamental understanding of polymeric relaxor ferroelectric behavior could lead to advances in flexible electronics, ...
Rice lab’s bright idea is pure gold
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodesCredit: Illustration by Longji Cui and Yunxuan Zhu/Rice University ...
Newly designed ligands for a catalytic reaction to synthesize drugs and useful compounds
Scientists spur advances in the field of drug development by designing a novel strategy to generate useful compoundsCredit: Gwangju Institute ...
Stanford-led team shows how to store data using 2D materials instead of silicon chips
Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in ...
Multifunctional nanofiber protects against explosions
Material could protect soldiers, firefighters, astronauts and moreCredit: Grant Gonzalez/Harvard SEAS Since World War I, the vast majority of American ...
Lose weight of fusion reactor component
Design optimization using a topology optimization techniqueCredit: National Institute for Fusion Science The group of associate professor Hitoshi Tamura and ...
An accurate simulation of high-pressure plasma for an economical helical fusion reactor
Credit: National Institute for Fusion Science The research team of Assistant Professor Masahiko Sato and Professor Yasushi Todo of the ...