Taking new angle to enable more efficient, compact fusion power plants
New microwave injection system at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility doubles current-drive efficiency and demonstrates for the first time efficient ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Island retreat: Fuel injection helps reduce magnetic island instabilities
Injecting pellets of frozen hydrogen fuel into the plasma of a fusion reactor helps repair tears in the surrounding magnetic ...
New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmas
Understanding fast ions, critical to heating plasmas, could help turn a liability into an assetCredit: DIII-D National Fusion Facility. Fort ...
World record acceleration: Zero to 7.8 billion electron volts in 8 inches
New technique doubles the highest electron energy ever produced by a laser plasma accelerator, bringing the promise of tera electron ...
A star is born: Using lasers to study how star stuff is made
Probing nucleosynthesis in star-like conditions using the world's biggest laser at NIFCredit: Don Jedlovec, LLNL Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--On a typical ...
Real texture for lab-grown meat
Researchers grow muscle cells on edible fibersCredit: Harvard University Lab-grown or cultured meat could revolutionize food production, providing a greener, ...
Why modified carbon nanotubes can help the reproducibility problem
Credit: Tokyo Tech Our search for sustainable energy generation technology has led researchers to investigate various materials and their combinations ...
A new stable form of plutonium discovered at the ESRF
Credit: Kristina Kvashnina An international team of scientists, led by the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), have found a new compound ...
This blacksmith forged a sword using chemistry (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2019 -- This week on Reactions, we head to Portland, Oregon, and ...
Nobel Laureate Prof. John B. Goodenough discusses lithium-ion batteries in Science China Chemistry
Credit: (a) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (b)Chemical Reviews, The American Chemical Society. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...
Nitrogen-embedded polycyclic compound with strong antiaromaticity and stability
Expedited approach toward antiaromatic compoundsCredit: Figure Adapted with Permission from Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141. © 2019 ...
University of Hawaii team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes
Credit: University of Hawaii A team led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa chemistry professor and researcher has been ...
Paving a way to achieve unexplored semiconductor nanostructures
Peculiar Bi provoked nanostructures in compound semiconductor nanowires controlled by atomically precise epitaxial crystal growthCredit: Ehime University Nanowire is a ...
‘Flamenco dancing’ molecule could lead to better-protecting sunscreen
Credit: created by Dr Michael Horbury Molecule that protects plants from overexposure to light repurposed as a UV filter for ...
Energy flow in the nano range
Credit: Images: Björn Kriete (l.) / Stefan Mueller (r.) Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy ...
Blanket of light may give better quantum computers
Researchers from DTU Physics describe in an article in Science, how -- by simple means -- they have created a ...
How roots grow hair
'Smoke detectors' in plants also control the growth of root hairCredit: Andreas Battenberg / TUM The roots of plants can ...
Bio-circuitry mimics synapses and neurons in a step toward sensory computing
Credit: Michelle Lehman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ...
Figuring out Alzheimer’s
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski One of the tasks of the scientists work is to explain how the world functions. ...
Double layer of graphene helps to control spin currents
New type of transistor one step closerCredit: S. Omar, University of Groningen In order to make transistors that operate using ...
