Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: NINS/IMS In the strongly correlated materials such as cuprate high-temperature superconductors, superconductivity can be controlled either by changing the ...

Smallest pixels ever created could light up color-changing buildings

Credit: NanoPhotonics Cambridge/Hyeon-Ho Jeong, Jialong Peng The smallest pixels yet created - a million times smaller than those in smartphones, ...

Army discovery opens path to safer batteries

Credit: (U.S. Army illustration) ADELPHI, Md. -- Soldiers carrying 15-25 pounds of batteries could carry batteries a fraction of the ...

UT Institute of Agriculture awarded nearly $1 million to study woody biomass feedstock logistics

Regional biofuel development plan will be forthcomingCredit: Photo by T. Johnson, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A team of researchers ...

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Better microring sensors for optical applications

Credit: Ramy El-Ganainy and Qi Zhong Optical sensing is one of the most important applications of light science. It plays ...

A surprising experiment opens the path to new particle manipulation methods

Unexpected result from acoustics experiment could have applications in biomedical and microsystems researchCredit: Aalto University Researchers at Aalto University have ...

2D insulators with ferromagnetism are rare; researchers just identified a new one

Credit: Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy Collaborating scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...

A dance of two: Tailoring interactions between remote fluids of excitons

Credit: Paulo V. Santos, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Ronen Rapaport An international collaboration involving European, Israeli, and US scientists realize for ...

New efficient way to engineer nanostructures mimicking natural immune response complexes

Novel method to engineer large multi-antibody-like nanostructures using DNA nanotechnology; the results demonstrate the potential for assembly of multiple proteins ...

Computing faster with quasi-particles

Credit: Picture: Ewelina Hankiewicz Majorana particles are very peculiar members of the family of elementary particles. First predicted in 1937 ...

New method developed to detect and trace homemade bombs

Researchers at King's College London, in collaboration with Northumbria University, have developed a new way of detecting homemade explosives which ...

Precise temperature measurements with invisible light

Novel infrared thermometer offers dramatically improved performanceCredit: NIST Ordinarily, you won't encounter a radiation thermometer until somebody puts one in ...

Discovery may lead to new materials for next-generation data storage

Army-funded research demonstrates emergent chirality in polar skyrmions for the first time in oxide superlatticesCredit: Courtesy of Xiaoxing Cheng, Pennsylvania ...

Substrate defects key to growth of 2D materials

Credit: Xiaotian Zhang/Penn State Creating two-dimentional materials large enough to use in electronics is a challenge despite huge effort but ...

A cautionary tale for researchers working on selective drug delivery

Many studies indicating that DNA nanostructures can enter cells more readily than simple DNA strands are flawed, according to researchers ...

Copper oxide photocathodes: laser experiment reveals location of efficiency loss

Credit: M. Kuensting/HZB Copper oxide (Cu2O) is a very promising candidate for future solar energy conversion: as a photocathode, the ...

What’s the chemistry behind the home pregnancy test? (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 9, 2019 -- There are many ways to find out if you're pregnant. ...

Researchers develop viable, environmentally-friendly alternative to Styrofoam

Credit: WSU RICHLAND, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly, plant-based material that for the first time ...

Secrets of fluorescent microalgae could lead to super-efficient solar cells