Bees form scent-driven phone tree to pass along messages
Credit: Peleg Lab Honeybees play a scent-driven game of telephone to guide members of a colony back to their queen, ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Scientists improve a photosynthetic enzyme by adding fluorophores
In new study, scientists show how covalently linking fluorophores to the enzyme broadens the range of wavelengths convertible into chemical ...
Creating patterns spontaneously in synthetic materials
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00110 Nature produces a startling array of patterned materials, from the sensitive ...
Copper foam as a highly efficient, durable filter for reusable masks and air cleaners
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00050 During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have grown accustomed to wearing facemasks, but ...
Recharge your batteries
University of Utah engineering professor finds new inroads in fast charging for lithium-ion batteriesCredit: Vincent Horiuchi/University of Utah College of ...
Neutrons reveal unpredicted binding between SARS-CoV-2, hepatitis C antiviral drug
Credit: Jill Hemman and Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists have found new, unexpected behaviors when SARS-CoV-2 - the ...
High-performance quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes: from materials to devices
Credit: by Li Zhang, Changjiu Sun, Tingwei He, Yuanzhi, Junli Wei, Yanmin Huang and Mingjian Yuan Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are ...
Moiré effect: How to twist material properties
2D materials have triggered a boom in materials research. Now it turns out that exciting effects occur when two such ...
Cost-effective, easily manufactured ventilators for COVID-19 patients
The Mechanical Ventilator Milano design helps overcome the ventilator shortage, aids with the respiratory effects of the pandemic.Credit: MVM Collaboration ...
Taking microelectronics to a new dimension
Credit: by Erik Hagen Waller, Julian Karst, and Georg von Freymann Metallic microstructures are the key components in almost every ...
Enhanced ceramics could play pivotal role in advancing 5G technology
Some 5G technologies still considered the wild west in material, design developmentCredit: Skyworks Solutions WASHINGTON, March 23, 2021 -- 5G, ...
Microchip models of human lungs enable better understanding of disease, immune response
Lung-on-a-chip platforms can provide a more rapid alternative for preliminary testing of drug candidates to treat coronavirus-induced lung infectionsCredit: Yildiz-Ozturk ...
Electronic nose sniffs out free radicals
Collaboration works on nanosensors to detect atmospheric pollutantsCredit: G. Mannaerts, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Smog?uselang=de#/media/File:Ciel_du_Havre_04.JPG) An international project involving researchers at ...
Time-expanded phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry
Credit: by Miguel Soriano-Amat, Hugo F. Martins, Vicente Durán, Luis Costa, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez and María R. Fernández-Ruiz Distributed ...
A simple laser for quantum-like classical light
Credit: by Yijie Shen, Isaac Nape, Xilin Yang, Xing Fu, Mali Gong, Darryl Naidoo and Andrew Forbes Tailoring light is ...
New results challenge leading theory in physics
Credit: CERN When so-called beauty quarks are produced during the collision of high-energy proton beams in the Large Hadron Collider ...
Metasurfaces for manipulating terahertz waves
Credit: by Xiaofei Zang, Bingshuang Yao, Lin Chen, Jingya Xie, Xuguang Guo, Alexei V. Balakin, Alexander P. Shkurinov, and Songlin ...
An exotic metal-insulator transition in a surface-doped transition metal dichalcogenide
Credit: International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University Metal-insulator transition (MIT) driven by many-body interactions is an important phenomenon in ...
Discovery of non-toxic semiconductors with a direct band gap in the near-infrared
New compound may replace toxic mercury cadmium telluride and gallium arsenide in near-infrared devicesCredit: NIMS NIMS and the Tokyo Institute ...
New result from the LHCb experiment challenges leading theory in physics
Credit: LHCb Collaboration Imperial physicists are part of a team that has announced 'intriguing' results that potentially cannot be explained ...