Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Human body communication can make data networks radically saferCredit: Dairoku Muramatsu & Yoshifumi Nishida Source: Equivalent Circuit Model Viewed from ...

Can break junction techniques still offer quantitative information at single-molecule level

Credit: ©Science China Press Single-molecule break junction techniques offer unique insights into the charge transport at the molecular level. The ...

New quantum dot microscope shows electric potentials of individual atoms

Credit: Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Christian Wagner A team of researchers from Jülich in cooperation with the University of Magdeburg ...

Researchers develop new method to rapidly, reliably monitor sickle cell disease

Technology doesn't require microscopic imaging or biochemical markersCredit: Florida Atlantic University Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disorder that affects ...

FEFU scientists to broaden ideas about reactive sintering of transparent ceramics

Credit: FEFU press office Green bodies' porous structure, i.e. mesostructure, affects dramatically the functional parameters of the optical ceramics obtained ...

University of Konstanz researchers create uniform-shape polymer nanocrystals

Researchers from the University of Konstanz's CRC 1214 'Anisotropic Particles as Building Blocks: Tailoring Shape, Interactions and Structures' generate uniform-shape ...

Small currents for big gains in spintronics

Breathing new life into dye-sensitized solar cells

Japanese researchers are poised to reboot the field of aromatic-fused porphyrin sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells, the most efficient solar ...

Soon, air pollution could be measured on every street corner

Credit: Insplorion/Johan Bodell Air pollution is responsible for 550,000 premature deaths a year in Europe - and 7 million worldwide, ...

A microscopic topographic map of cellular function

A decade of research leads MU scientists to a better understanding of how materials move out of cellsCredit: University of ...

Inexpensive, simple fabrication method poised to expand microlens applications

Laser catapulting creates miniaturized lenses with customized shapes and optical properties for cameras, solar cells and microscopes WASHINGTON -- A ...

Table salt compound spotted on Europa

Finding prompts a rethinking of the icy moon's subsurface ocean A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on ...

Physics at the edge

UCSB condensed matter physicists take a step closer to building a graphene-based topological insulator In 2005, condensed matter physicists Charles ...

New gene editor harnesses jumping genes for precise DNA integration

Credit: Sam Sternberg/Columbia University Irving Medical Center NEW YORK, NY --A new discovery by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers develop semi-liquid metal anode for next-generation batteries

The new anode could help create a safer high energy lithium metal batteryCredit: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers from Carnegie Mellon ...

Hybrid nanostructure steps up light-harvesting efficiency

A stepwise transfer of energy through the different components of the nanostructure boosts its response to light, showing promise for ...

Discovery of field-induced pair density wave state in high temperature superconductors

Credit: MPI CPfS, artist credit to K. Fujita, Brookhaven National Lab Superconductors are quantum materials that are perfect transmitters of ...

The battle to save citrus fruits

Huanglongbing, (HLB), also known as citrus greening, has devastated Florida's citrus farms. Although some growers in China and Brazil have ...

Scientists develop a chemocatalytic approach for one-pot reaction of cellulosic ethanol

Credit: WANG Aiqin Scientists at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed ...

Binary solvent mixture boosting high efficiency of polymer solar cells