Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Reaction turns carbon dioxide into molecular oxygenCredit: Caltech Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators ...

The first thermodynamically-reversible chemical reactor capable of producing hydrogen as a pure product stream represents a "transformational" step forward in ...

Credit: Mary Zhu A team of scientists from Arizona State University has taken a significant step closer to unlocking the ...

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers from Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg present a ...

Credit: Fu Zhang/Penn State A technique that introduces carbon-hydrogen molecules into a single atomic layer of the semiconducting material tungsten ...

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory/Andreas Glatz Materials by design: Argonne researchers use genetic algorithms for better superconductors. Owners of thoroughbred stallions ...

Scientists studying a lithium-ion battery with an iron-oxide electrode as it charged and discharged over 100 cycles found that the ...

EU project 'STRONG-2020' brings together 44 institutes from all over Europe conducting research on the strong interaction The theoretical and ...

Credit: © Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Aluminum is one of the most promising materials for aeronautics and automobile industry. Scientists from ...

Credit: A. Kumatani An international research group has improved graphene's ability to catalyse the 'hydrogen evolution reaction', which releases hydrogen ...

McMaster researchers perform simple calculations by shining light patterns through a translucent cubeCredit: McMaster University HAMILTON, ON May 24, 2019 ...

The patented technique allows electrons to be used for quantum computing, high-precision measurements and other applications A technique to stabilise ...

Credit: Berkeley Lab Lithium Doesn't Crack Under Pressure, It Transforms by ALIYAH KOVNER Using cutting-edge theoretical calculations performed at NERSC, ...

From three MRS Energy & Sustainability papers As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released an update to last year's ...

A new International Space Station investigation, Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature-10, is using temperature changes to better understand how colloids -- or ...

Left: A single liquid metal nanodroplet grafted with polymer chains. Right: Schematic of polymer brushes grafted from the oxide layer ...

Bonn University and Columbia University chemists discover novel, sustainable reaction mechanismCredit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Chemists from the University ...

Credit: Graphic: Joerg Schaefer / University of Wuerzburg In 2015, physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, succeeded in ...

Fiber optic research can give us better medical equipment, improved environmental monitoring, more media channels -- and maybe better solar ...

Credit: istock Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar ...