Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: NTU Singapore A 50-year-old puzzle in statistical mechanics has been solved by an international team of researchers who have ...

Voltage induced ‘Super-fluid like’ penetration effects in Liquid metals at room temperature

Credit: ©Science China Press Superfluids were first discovered as a special quantum state of liquid helium, later dubbed as "Superfluid ...

Slow light to speed up LiDAR sensors development

Credit: Yokohama National University Quicker is not always better, especially when it comes to a 3D sensor in advanced technology. ...

Room-temperature multiferroicity in 2D ultrathin-layers and diversified magnetoelectric couplings

Credit: ©Science China Press The recent progress on two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals ferroelectrics may revolutionize the applications of ferroelectric ...

New technology for pre-replenishing lithium for lithium ion supercapacitors

Credit: ©Science China Press Lithium nitride is a well-known positive pre-lithiation additive that can be used to compensate for the ...

Professor exploring greener chemical manufacturing wins NSF award for young researchers

Miguel Modestino's National Science Foundation CAREER Award will advance research that could affect a third of all chemical productionCredit: The ...

Clothes last longer and shed fewer microfibers in quicker, cooler washing cycles

First research into impact of wash cycle times shows benefits of shorter, cooler washesCredit: University of Leeds/P&G Those nice new ...

Watching complex molecules at work

Novel spectrometer at the IRIS beamline of the BESSY II synchrotron source at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) allows analysis of ...

How to make it easier to turn plant waste into biofuels

Rutgers-led team develops innovative process to rapidly dissolve plant fibersCredit: Shih-Hsien Liu/ORNL and Shishir Chundawat/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Researchers have developed ...

Man versus machine: Can AI do science?

Researchers develop a machine capable of solving complex problems in theoretical physics.Credit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit, OIST Over the ...

Connecting the dots in the sky could shed new light on dark matter

Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may help astrophysicists ...

Researchers solve a scientific mystery about evaporation

Work has implications for power generation, desalination, electronicsCredit: University of Houston Evaporation can explain why water levels drop in a ...

APS tip sheet: High energy gamma rays

Nine Galactic sources are the highest-energy gamma -ray sources ever detected, which could suggest the presence of Galactic acceleratorsCredit: The ...

EU project RES URBIS shows the viability of bioplastic generation with urban biowaste

Credit: J. Mata/UB In a circular economy, the city waste being turned into resources, is of great importance considering more ...

Leviathan polymer brush made with E. coli holds bacteria at bay

Credit: Georgia Tech / Allison Carter A lab goof with an enzyme taken from bacteria has led to the creation ...

Why did we give sailors and soldiers shark repellent that … didn’t work? (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2020 -- People have been developing different forms of shark repellent for ...

McMaster chemists find new way to break down old tires into material for new ones

Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University A team of chemists at McMaster University has discovered an innovative way to break down ...

Nano-objects of desire: Assembling ordered nanostructures in 3D

Using shape-programmable DNA frames, scientists established a new nanofabrication platform for directing nanomaterial components of different natures (inorganic and biological) ...

Atomic tuning on cobalt enables an eightfold increase of H2O2 production

Modulating single cobalt atoms boosts a low-cost, efficient, and eco-friendly electrochemical H2O2 production that can potentially benefit the semiconductor and ...

Chemical circuits for the molecular diagnosis and treatment of previously incurable diseases