Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Did you know that music and diagnostic imaging have something in common? Sounds have a lower or higher pitch depending ...

Brookhaven Lab publishes second edition of nuclear nonproliferation textbook

Updating the 2013 edition, the new release describes important changes that have since been implemented in the International Atomic Energy ...

Novel MD simulation sheds light on mystery of hydrated electron’s structure

Credit: Vladimir Rybkin The e-aq species is difficult to observe directly because it is short-lived and cannot be separated or ...

New research shows highest energy density all-solid-state batteries now possible

Credit: Sangryun Kim and Shin-ichi Orimo Scientists from Tohoku University and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization have developed a ...

Optical ‘tweezers’ combine with X-rays to enable analysis of crystals in liquids

Credit: Robert Horn/Argonne National Laboratory Understanding how chemical reactions happen on tiny crystals in liquid solutions is central to a ...

The story of nanotechnology and how size really does matter

Credit: World Scientific Nanotechnology is a buzz word many of us have heard but are uncertain as to what it ...

Dynamic hydrogel used to make ‘soft robot’ components and LEGO-like building blocks

Credit: Wong Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Using a new type of dual polymer material capable of responding ...

Researchers create new way to power electric cars

UMass Lowell invention makes vehicles run clean longer LOWELL, Mass. - A team of UMass Lowell researchers has pioneered a ...

Organic semiconductors: One transistor for all purposes

In mobiles, fridges, planes - transistors are everywhere. But they often operate only within a restricted current range. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) ...

Physicists reveal why matter dominates universe

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University have confirmed that matter and antimatter ...

Making solar cells is like buttering bread

Credit: Loi lab / University of Groningen Formamidinium lead iodide is a very good material for photovoltaic cells, but getting ...

Breakthrough in acidic water electrolysis via ruthenium-based catalysts

Credit: CUI Jie Hydrogen fuel, with the advantages of clean, renewable and of high fuel efficiency, is seen as the ...

Hannover Messe: Motorless pumps and self-regulating valves made from ultrathin film

Credit: Credit: Oliver Dietze The valves and pumps being developed by the research group led by Professor Stefan Seelecke at ...

Heroines of the periodic table (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 21, 2019 -- In 1871, Dimitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the ...

Magnetoresistive sensors for near future innovative development

Credit: Louis Reed@_louisreed, Unsplash Excluding the information recording and reading technology, in the next 15-20 years, the hypersensitive sensors operating ...

Golden ball in a golden cage

'Golden fullerene': Ligand-protected nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms Researchers have synthesized a tiny structure from 32 gold atoms. This ...

Solving the efficiency of Gram-negative bacteria

Researchers have discovered how antibiotic-resistant bacteria construct their defense system, which could lead to new treatments for untreatable infectionsCredit: National ...

NIST researchers boost intensity of nanowire LEDs

Credit: NIST Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, ...

Plant scraps are the key ingredient in cheap, sustainable jet fuel

Scientists in China have developed a process for converting plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel. ...

In a new quantum simulator, light behaves like a magnet