Clean air research converts toxic air pollutant into industrial chemical
Credit: The University of Manchester A toxic pollutant produced by burning fossil fuels can be captured from the exhaust gas ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
New method for using spin waves in magnetic materials
Physicists find a way to eliminate unwanted damping / Study in 'Nature Communications'Credit: B. Divinskiy et al./ Nature Communications Smaller, ...
Industrial scale production of layer materials via intermediate-assisted grinding
Credit: ©Science China Press The large number of 2D materials, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) ...
Stabilizing sulfur cathode by single Li-ion channel polymer binder
Credit: ©Science China Press The growing demands on the high-performance energy-storage system for emerging technologies such as electric vehicles and ...
Lehigh materials science professor elected to Academia Europaea
Prestigious honor from international association recognizes Christopher J. Kiely as a world-renowned expert in electron microscopy and catalyst material characterizationCredit: ...
New antenna tech to equip ceramic coatings with heat radiation control
Credit: Purdue University illustration/Xueji Wang WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The gas turbines powering aircraft engines rely on ceramic coatings that ...
Study probes relationship between strange metals and high-temperature superconductors
Computer simulations yield a much more accurate picture of these states of matterCredit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Strange metals ...
Big plans to save the planet depend on nanoscopic materials improving energy storage
Drexel researchers lead international report on future of nanomaterials for energy storageCredit: Drexel University The challenge of building an energy ...
Breaking (and restoring) graphene’s symmetry in a twistable electronics device
Columbia researchers invent a new way to tune the properties of 2D materials by adjusting the twist angle between them; ...
Chemists create new route to PHAs: naturally degradable bioplastics
Chemical catalysis for an existing class of biomaterialsCredit: John Eisele/Colorado State University Photography A tide of public momentum is swelling ...
Quantum tricks on demand
Max Planck-New York Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena inaugurated in New York CityCredit: Asiya Khaki The Max Planck Institute for ...
Dmitri Zakharov recognized with the 2019 Chuck Fiori Award
The Microscopy Society of America award -- which honors an outstanding technologist in the physical sciences--recognizes Zakharov's contributions to environmental ...
The simultaneous merging of giant galaxies
Research team discovers three supermassive black holes at the core of one galaxyCredit: P Weilbacher (AIP), NASA, ESA, the Hubble ...
Unraveling gene expression
Credit: Beat Fierz, EPFL The DNA of a single cell is 2-3 meters long end-to-end. To fit and function, DNA ...
A review of single molecule-based electronic devices
Credit: Bingrun Chen In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a group of researchers from ...
Protection for pacemakers
Credit: Hylomorph ETH scientists have developed a special protective membrane made of cellulose that significantly reduces the build-up of fibrotic ...
Researchers visualize bacteria motor in first step toward human-produced electrical energy
Credit: Institute for Molecular Science Humans, one day, may be able to produce their own electrical energy in the same ...
Magnetic wave flows under better control from now on
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Even faster processors with even smaller dimensions? Wherever neither electronics nor spintronics can cope with performance ...
Magnetic wave flows under better control from now on
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Even faster processors with even smaller dimensions? Wherever neither electronics nor spintronics can cope with performance ...
Researchers substantially boost sensitivity of terahertz gas analysis
Development poised to improve spectroscopic analysis for environmental and medical applicationsCredit: Francis Hindle, Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale WASHINGTON -- A ...
