Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: (Image by Jill Hemman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.) The sun delivers more energy to Earth in one hour than ...

Tampons, sanitary napkins could diagnose yeast infections with color-changing threads

Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00806 The yeast Candida albicans can cause itchy, painful urinary tract and vaginal ...

Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time

Researchers design new experiments to map and test the mysterious quantum realmCredit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer A heart surgeon doesn't ...

Magnetically propelled cilia power climbing soft robots and microfluidic pumps (video)

Credit: American Chemical Society The rhythmic motions of hair-like cilia move liquids around cells or propel the cells themselves. In ...

Scientists take a bite out of solar efficiency challenge with sandwich model

The design of next-generation solar panels can now be improved thanks to a greater fundamental understanding of the structure within ...

Single fingerprint at a crime scene detects class A drug usage

Credit: Ionoptika Ltd The latest findings show that with clever science, a single fingerprint left at a crime scene could ...

Adding antibodies to enhance photodynamic therapy for viral and bacterial disease

Advancing PDT as a rapid response to pandemicsCredit: Vladislav Yakovlev/Texas A&M University WASHINGTON, May 18, 2021 -- The COVID-19 pandemic ...

COVID-19 testing method gives results within one second

Superfast, portable COVID-19 testing method detects the virus much faster than currently available methodsCredit: Minghan Xian, Hao Luo, Xinyi Xia, ...

Bipolar order: A straightforward technique to have more control over organic thin films

Credit: Tokyo Tech Modern and emerging applications in various fields have found creative uses for organic thin films (TFs); some ...

Nanofiber filter captures almost 100% of coronavirus aerosols

The filter could help curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virusCredit: Yun Shen A filter made from polymer nanothreads blew three ...

Wake steering potentially boosts energy production at US wind plants

U.S. wind plants achieve a predicted annual production gain of 0.8% by using wake steeringCredit: Eric Simley, NREL WASHINGTON, May ...

New catalyst proved efficient to electrosynthesis of ammonia

Credit: GENG Jing In a recent research, researchers led by Prof. ZHANG Haimin from the Institute of Solid State Physics ...

Toward overcoming solubility issues in organic chemistry

Credit: Tamae Seo, et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society. March 30, 2021 Scientists from Hokkaido University have developed ...

New material could create ‘neurons’ and ‘synapses’ for new computers

Credit: University of Groningen Classic computers use binary values (0/1) to perform. By contrast, our brain cells can use more ...

Scientists to take a new step in the microelectronics’ development

Researchers developed a method to determine the electrochemical capacity.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers of Peter the Great ...

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces 2021 graduate fellows

Credit: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the most ...

Electric cars: Special dyes could prevent unnecessary motor replacements

Credit: Uni Halle / Alexander Funtan One day in the near future dyes in electric motors might indicate when cable ...

‘Bite’ defects revealed in bottom-up graphene nanoribbons

Credit: @Michele Pizzochero Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), narrow strips of single-layer graphene, have interesting physical, electrical, thermal, and optical properties because ...

Crystalline supermirrors for trace gas detection in environmental science and medicine

Spintronics: Improving electronics with finer spin control