Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Plant immune system detects bacteria through small fatty acid moleculesCredit: Astrid Eckert / TUM Like humans and animals, plants defend ...

The chemistry behind different tea flavors (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 11, 2019 -- Did you know that many different types of tea come ...

Rice, Northwestern find new ways to image, characterize unique material

2D borophene gets a closer lookCredit: Xiaolong Liu/Northwestern University Graphene can come from graphite. But borophene? There's no such thing ...

2D gold quantum dots are atomically tunable with nanotubes

Credit: Nicole Kelly/Michigan Tech Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics. Now, researchers can convert metallic ...

Oregon scientists drill into white graphene to create artificial atoms

Patterned on a microchip and working in ambient conditions, the atoms could lead to rapid advancements in new quantum-based technology ...

Infinite number of quantum particles gives clues to big-picture behaviour at large scale

Scientists gain a deeper understanding of phenomena at macroscopic scale by simulating the consequences of having an infinite number of ...

Inner electrons behave differently in aromatic hydrocarbons

A new study explores how the presence of benzene ring bonds affects the process of Auger decay When an electron ...

Cancer sufferers’ hair loss misery during chemo could be over

Scientists are developing a specially-formulated shampoo which, combined with scalp cooling innovations, could put an end to the misery for ...

New method may transport medicine better through the body

Credit: Unsplash.com Credit Badge... At some point every person is likely to experience an inflammatory condition somewhere in the body. ...

New super-accurate optical atomic clocks pass critical test

Progress towards an optically defined second could improve advanced communication and the search for new physics WASHINGTON -- Researchers have ...

Ships slide in an air envelope

The first prize of the BMBF Validation Award goes to the ARES project on bionic ship coatings that reduce friction ...

New tunable nanomaterials possible due to flexible process invented by Bath physicists

Physicists have developed a flexible way to synthesize a wide range of novel nanomaterials with potential applications in areas including ...

World’s fastest hydrogen sensor could pave the way for clean hydrogen energy

Credit: Mia Halleröd Palmgren/Chalmers University of Technology Hydrogen is a clean and renewable energy carrier that can power vehicles, with ...

Wonder material: Individual 2D phosphorene nanoribbons made for the first time

Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus have been made by UCL researchers in a world first, and they could ...

‘Deep learning’ casts wide net for novel 2D materials

Rice U. engineers show faster techniques to model atom-flat materials for bottom-up designCredit: Prabhas Hundi/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 10, ...

Scientists from NUST MISIS create a super-fast robot microscope to search for dark matter

Credit: © NUST MISIS Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia) and the ...

Ready, set, go: Scientists evaluate novel technique for firing up fusion-reaction fuel

Credit: Nick Rivera/Columbia University To capture and control on Earth the fusion reactions that drive the sun and stars, researchers ...

Water that never freezes

Credit: ETH Zurich Making ice cubes is a simple process: you take a plastic ice-cube tray like you'd find in ...

Scientists improve cycling performance of Al-based batteries with high areal density cathode

Credit: TANG Yongbing Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the dominant power source for portable electronics and electric vehicles. However, the relatively ...

Manipulating the crystallization and assembly of materials in solution by Marangoni flow