Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Research overcomes key obstacles to scaling up DNA data storage

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques for labeling and retrieving data files in DNA-based information storage ...

What causes battery electrode failure?

Credit: Virginia Tech Battery researchers at Virginia Tech co-led an international study that detailed the broadest understanding of what happens ...

Sensitive new laser technique detects volatile organic compounds

Accurate measurements of mixed airborne molecules could improve breath alcohol tests, climate research and sensors for occupational health and safety ...

Nanomaterial safety on a nano budget

Rice University researchers share their protocol for handling carbon nanotubesCredit: Barron Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 3, 2019) - ...

Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrodinger’s cat (and finally save it)

Credit: Kat Stockton New Haven, Conn. - Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger's famous cat, ...

New mineral classification system captures Earth’s complex past

Could a new classification system that accounts for minerals' distinct journeys help us better understand mineralogy as a process of ...

Accurate probing of magnetism with light

Credit: MBI Probing magnetic materials with extreme ultraviolet radiation allows to obtain a detailed microscopic picture of how magnetic systems ...

Ultrafast metal-ion batteries based on new organic cathode material have been developed

Researchers from Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology, IPCP RAS and D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology have designed ...

Tuning the topological insulator Sb2Te3: Just add iron

Iron-doping of the topological insulator Sb2Te3 results in useful electronic and magnetic propertiesCredit: FLEET/UOW Iron-doping of the topological insulator Sb2Te3 ...

A fast all-visible-light molecular switch with 100 nm band separation

De novo design allows for breakthrough in molecular photocontrolCredit: Wiktor Szymanski, University of Groningen Medical Center. A consortium of scientists ...

Researchers can now predict properties of disordered polymers

Credit: The Grainger College of Engineering Thanks to a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ...

Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 3, 2019

Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Nuclear--Tiny test fuels For the first time, Oak Ridge National ...

In-situ measurement of 3D protein structure inside living eukaryotic cells

June 1, 2019

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurement and state-of-the-art computational science reveal protein structures in higher eukaryotic cellsCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan ...

Physicists create stable, strongly magnetized plasma jet in laboratory

Credit: Elle Starkman When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a soupy amalgam ...

Boston College chemist Jia Niu named 2019 Beckman Young Investigator

Honor from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awards early-career chemist $600,000 for polymer researchCredit: Lee Pellegrini / Boston College Chestnut ...

Finding a needle in a haystack: Discovery of Ti 2 InB 2 for synthesizing layered TiB

Credit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) managed to use boron as the X element in ...

Breaking the symmetry in the quantum realm

Credit: images created by Guoyan Wang & Lei Chen For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a ...

Colloidal gel properties under the microscope

Tokyo, Japan - The term colloidal gel might not be one that is immediately familiar to everybody. However, most people ...

Flexible generators turn movement into energy