Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

October 30, 2019

Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03205 In the 1960s, a French artist named Jean-Pierre Sudre began experimenting with ...

News about drug delivery

October 30, 2019

Credit: (Picture: Ann-Christin Pöppler) Nanocapsules and other containers can transport drugs through a patient's body directly to the origin of ...

Using computational chemistry to produce cheaper infrared plastic lenses

The new material could bring consumers affordable access to consumer-grade infrared detectors in products such as autonomous cars and in-home ...

Study shows ability to detect light from UV to the IR optical regimes using spin currents

Credit: Joshua Walker A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have shown that the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) can ...

Using renewable electricity for industrial hydrogenation reactions

Pitt researcher featured as 'Emerging Investigator' in Journal of Materials Chemistry ACredit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (Oct. 29, 2019) -- ...

An electronic signal expands the material by a factor of 100

Reversible electronic solid-gel switching of a conjugated polymerCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have ...

Structured light promises path to faster, more secure communications

Quantum mechanics is embracing patterns of light to create an alphabet that can be leveraged to build a light-based quantum ...

Intuitive in the virtual reality

International research team develops bimodal 'electronic skin'Credit: HZDR / D. Makarov Through the crafty use of magnetic fields, scientists from ...

Flexing for success from Saudi Arabia to Silicon Valley

Examination of conscience on the role of engineering in sustainable development

In a study conducted by 3 engineers, Josep Maria Basart (UAB), Mireia Farrús (UPF) and Montse Serra (UOC) presented in ...

PPPL findings: Discoveries from fusion to astrophysics at global gathering

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. More than 155 researchers and students -- the largest delegation from the U.S. ...

Salt helps proteins move on down the road

Rice chemists identify hidden aspects of protein-separation process to simplify drug manufactureCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) ...

DESI points 5,000 robotic ‘eyes’ at the sky to explore dark energy

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey that will analyze the light ...

Let there be…a new light

Scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apartCredit: Steven Roberts Light is the fastest way to ...

Soft double gyroids are unique, but imperfect, crystals

Rice materials scientists detail unexpected distortions in self-assembling polymersCredit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) - What appears ...

UV satellite will open new view on exploding stars and black holes

DESY to build 100-megapixel camera for Israeli space telescopeCredit: DESY, Sven Stein A new space telescope will open up an ...

How to move against the current? One answer is ’tilt’-illating

Credit: Dr. Yan-Peng Liu Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a ...

An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum

Credit: IFJ PAN, MPI Kofo Almost everyone uses nanometer-sized alumina these days - this mineral, among others, constitutes the skeleton ...

Go-ahead for international stellarator project

German-American joint project/Funding by Helmholtz AssociationCredit: IPP, Volker Steger Fusion systems of the stellarator type promise high-performance plasmas in continuous ...

Tungsten suboxide improves the efficiency of platinum in hydrogen production