Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: Source: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Skeletal muscles make a tremendous variety of actions stabilizing the body in different positions. ...

Eco-friendly device developed at UL, Ireland detects real-time pipe damage

A University of Limerick, Ireland researcher has developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly sensor that can detect damage in pipelines and ...

NUS scientists create a new type of intelligent material

Known as "two-dimensional electrolytes", these smart materials could potentially be used in many things from drug delivery to energy storageCredit: ...

An enzyme system for the hydrogen industry

Platinum-free biocatalyst for fuel cells and water electrolysisCredit: Dr. James Birrell / MPI CEC An enzyme could make a dream ...

New method for producing synthetic DNA

Chemically synthesized short DNA sequences are extremely important ingredients with countless uses like in detecting COVID-19. Researchers from Aarhus University ...

Computer designs magnonic devices

Credit: © Chloe Kim, Time Illustration Studio The field of magnonics offers a new type of low-power information processing, in ...

Scaling down Ionic Transistors to the ultimate limit

Credit: Yahui Xue The human brain is a vast network of billions of biological cells called Neurons which fires electrical ...

Physicists extract proton mass radius from experimental data

Credit: KOU Wei Researchers have recently extracted the proton mass radius from the experimental data. A research group at the ...

Observing individual atoms in 3D nanomaterials and their surfaces

Credit: KAIST Atoms are the basic building blocks for all materials. To tailor functional properties, it is essential to accurately ...

Excitation spectral microscopy integrates multi-target imaging and quantitative biosensing

Credit: by Kun Chen, Rui Yan, Limin Xiang, and Ke Xu The multiplexing capability of fluorescence microscopy is severely limited ...

Shaken, not stirred: Reshuffling skyrmions ultrafast

Credit: MBI Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient: future requirements to computing and data storage are hard to fulfill and alternative concepts ...

Gold leaf could help diagnose viral infections in low-resource settings

Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00186 Gold leaf -- gold metal hammered into thin sheets -- is ...

Brand new physics of superconducting metals refuted by Lancaster physicists

Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists' recent "discovery" of the field effect in superconductors is nothing ...

Low-temperature crystallization of phase-pure α-formamidinium lead iodide enabled by study

Credit: Ahlawat Paramvir, @EPFL Though different fabrication approaches exist, two-step deposition is one of the main experimental techniques now used ...

Could AI help recover energy and fresh water from municipal wastewater?

UChicago, Argonne to develop test systems to save energy, benefit underserved communitiesCredit: credit MWRD.jpg As city populations boom and the ...

Tiny amino acid differences can lead to dramatically different enzymes

Credit: Dr Ulrike Kappler Just a few changes to an enzyme's amino acids can be enough to dramatically change its ...

Lasers, levitation and machine learning make better heat-resistant materials

Credit: (Image by Ganesh Sivaraman/Argonne National Laboratory.) Argonne scientists across several disciplines have combined forces to create a new process ...

Using phage to discover new antifreeze proteins

Credit: Credit: University of Warwick Controlling, and mitigating the effects of ice growth is crucial to protect infrastructure, help preserve ...

Bioengineering approach for functional muscle regeneration

Combining biochemical and topographical cues improves quality and efficiency of skeletal muscle regenerationCredit: Sang Jin Lee WASHINGTON, May 11, 2021 ...

James Anderson wins the Dreyfus Foundation’s high honor