Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: Kollár et al. Atomic interactions in everyday solids and liquids are so complex that some of these materials' properties ...

Fall 2019 American Physical Society Prize and Award recipients announced

COLLEGE PARK, MD, July 11, 2019 -- The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the Society's Fall 2019 prize and ...

What happens when you explode a chemical bond?

Attosecond laser technique yields movies of chemical bond dissociationCredit: Yuki Kobayashi, UC Berkeley On bright summer days, the sunlight all ...

Caught in the act: Images capture molecular motions in real time

Credit: Brown University / SLAC PROVIDENCE R.I. -- Researchers have used ultra-high-speed x-ray pulses to make a high-resolution "movie" of ...

How plague pathogens trick the immune system

Researchers at the University of Bonn show how an enzyme changes its shape and promotes the infectionCredit: © Foto: Hamed ...

NIST’s compact atomic gyroscope displays new twists

Credit: Burrus/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their compact atomic gyroscope to enable ...

New superomniphobic glass soars high on butterfly wings using machine learning

Pitt engineers develop new superclear, supertransparent, stain-resistant, anti-fogging nanostructured glass based on butterfly wing PITTSBURGH (July 11, 2019) -- Glass ...

Scientists opening the door to a new era of medicinal chemistry

A new molecular descriptor estimates molecular complexity and defines the evolution of small molecules in medicinal chemistry July 11, 2019 ...

Scientists gain new insights into the mechanisms of cell division

Centrioles -- critical players in cell divisionCredit: © Alexander Dammermann Mitosis is the process by which the genetic information encoded ...

30 shades of steel: Scientists develop ‘cheat sheet’ for the creation of new steels

Credit: ©NUST MISIS Researchers from the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" developed a database that will help create ...

A crystal clear step closer to commerical solar cells

A synthetic approach developed by KAUST researchers generates homogeneous and defect-free crystals that could fast-track the commercialization of perovskite solar ...

Dresden physicists use nanostructures to free photons for highly efficient white OLEDs

Trapped light particlesCredit: (c) Sebastian Reineke et al., Nature Communications: CC BY 4.0 Since light-emitting diodes only produce monochrome light, ...

Experimental mini-accelerator achieves record energy

Coupled terahertz device significantly improves electron beam qualityCredit: DESY, Gesine Born Scientists at DESY have achieved a new world record ...

Engineers revolutionize molecular microscopy

Single molecules measure electrical potentials "All matter consists of positively charged atomic nuclei and negatively charged electrons," explains Professor Dr.-Ing. ...

Bath honours world-leading astronomer

University of Bath awards Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell an Honorary Degree as part of its summer graduation celebrations The ...

Understanding how the mTOR complex comes together

Learning more about a specific protein complex and how it works is a stepping stone for others who might look ...

Study contributes to the production of flexible electronic devices

Research conducted by Brazilian and Italian scientists ordered the structure of polythiophene to enhance the optical and electronic properties of ...

How to capture waste heat energy with improved polymers

UMass Amherst chemists, electrical engineers identify new variable for material designCredit: UMass Amherst/Meenakshi Upadhyaya By one official estimate, American manufacturing, ...

No more trial-and-error when choosing an electrolyte for metal-air batteries

Engineering researchers demonstrate how electrolytes for alkali-metal air batteries can be selected using a single, easy-to-measure parameterCredit: Ramani lab Metal-air ...

Nuclear physics in search of world artifacts