Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Lava lamps, tambourines and, of course, psychedelic drugs were hallmarks of the 1960s. Psychedelic drugs can make people euphoric, though ...

Light pulses provide a new route to enhance superconductivity

Credit: RIKEN Materials known as Mott insulators are odd things. Under normal electron band theory they ought to conduct electricity, ...

The speedy secrets of mako sharks — ‘cheetahs of the ocean’

Water tunnel experiments at the University of Alabama show how scales help generate super speeds -- work that may inspire ...

Researchers find potential new source of rare earth elements

Study could benefit the US clean energy and electronics industriesCredit: USDA ARS Researchers have found a possible new source of ...

Plasma protein may hold promise for wound scaffolds

Researchers in Germany have employed a plasma protein found in blood to develop a new method for making wound-healing tissue ...

Interdisciplinary collaboration yields hardest, thinnest coatings yet discovered

Lehigh University materials science and mechanical engineering professors net NSF GOALI award to study ultra wear-resistant nitride filmsCredit: Ryan Hulvat ...

New chemical probes advance search for new antibiotics

Indiana University researchers have invented technology to watch bacteria build cell walls in real timeCredit: Video courtesy of the VanNieuwenhze ...

What causes that peak? Answering a long-standing question for covalent liquids

Credit: 2019 Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - Materials that have a disordered structure ...

New research opens door to more efficient chemical processes across spectrum of industries

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Chemical processes that are more efficient and less expensive may be coming to industries ranging from battery ...

ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for energy conversion applications

Cells use sugars to communicate at the molecular level

The human body is made up of 30 to 40 million cells, a large and complex network of blood cells, ...

How hair dye works (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 1, 2019 -- Whether you need a disguise to run from the law ...

BFU scientists learned how to manage the properties of amorphous microwires

A team of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University and MISIS learned how to manage properties of amorphous microwires ...

New X-ray measurement approach could improve CT scanners

A new measurement approach proposed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could lead to a ...

Scientists develop bubble diameter prediction model for industrial use

Credit: HUANG Qingshan Gas-liquid and gas-liquid-solid reactors have been widely applied in fermentation, photosynthetic culture, metallurgy, and many other processes ...

Supercomputing enables sound prediction model for controlling noise

Method could simplify process of designing Helmholtz resonatorsCredit: Courtesy of Lewin Stein, TU Berlin. Noise-cancelling headphones have become a popular ...

Organic electronics: Scientists develop a high-performance unipolar n-type thin-film transistor

-Credit: Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Yang Wang Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report a unipolar n-type transistor with a ...

Hybrid material may outperform graphene in several applications

February 28, 2019

A structure comprising a molybdenum disulfide monolayer on an azobenzene substrate could be used to build a highly compactable and ...

Hall effect becomes viscous in graphene

February 28, 2019

Researchers at the University of Manchester in the UK have discovered that electrons in graphene act like a very unique ...

New blueprint for understanding, predicting and optimizing complex nanoparticles