Toxic PAH air pollutants from fossil fuels ‘multiply’ in sunlight
Credit: Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg When power stations burn coal, a class of compounds called Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Four UNIST laboratories, selected as excellent safety management laboratories!
Credit: UNIST UNIST has announced that four laboratories of UNIST Central Research Facilities (UCRF) were selected to receive the 'Excellent ...
How our microplastic waste becomes ‘hubs’ for pathogens, antibiotic-resistant bacteria
A new study shows how microplastics found in our daily personal care products can also host pathogens and boost antibiotic-resistant ...
For good health, trust your gut
UC chemist uses federal grant to study brain-immune system communicationCredit: Ravenna Rutledge/UC Creative If it seems like your stomach has ...
Better batteries start with basics — and a big computer
UC chemists used quantum simulations to understand a solvent that holds promise for green energyCredit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative To understand ...
Looking at optical Fano resonances under a new light
Scientists advance understanding of optical Fano resonances and show new ways to manipulate light with metamaterialsCredit: Overvig and Alù, DOI: ...
High-efficiency pulse compression established on solitons in nonlinear Kerr resonators
Credit: by Sheng Zhang, Zongyuan Fu, Bingbing Zhu, Guangyu Fan, Yudong Chen, Shunjia Wang, Yaxin Liu, Andrius Baltuska, Cheng Jin, ...
Robust and ultralow-energy-threshold ignition of lean fuels by an ultrashort-pulsed laser
Credit: by Hongwei Zang, Helong Li, Wei Zhang, Yao Fu, Shanming Chen, Huailiang Xu, and Ruxin Li Laser ignition (LI) ...
Advancement creates nanosized, foldable robots
Credit: Courtesy Cornell University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial ...
Plasmonic tweezers: For nanoscale optical trapping and beyond
Credit: by Yuquan Zhang, Changjun Min, Xiujie Dou, Xianyou Wang, H. Paul Urbach, Michael Somekh and Xiaocong Yuan Optical tweezers ...
Pretty gameful!
DFG funds mobile game on quantum physics with 100.000 eurosCredit: Philipp Stollenmayer Quantum physics with a cat: The Würzburg-Dresden Cluster ...
A new dye shakes up solar cells
Credit: Jean-David Décoppet and Alejandra Hauser. In 1991, scientists Brian O'Regan and Michael Grätzel at EPFL published a seminal paper ...
The eukaryotic cell nucleus resembles the layout of a superstore
Credit: Source: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The headquarter of a eukaryotic cell is the nucleus, and most of the cell's ...
Unveiling smart buoys for marine environment monitoring!
Credit: Seawater Resources Technology Research Center of UNIST "Seawater battery-based smart buoys can monitor and collect over 15 different marine ...
Like an artificial nervous system
Interdisciplinary research team in RTG "Materials for Brain" produces extremely conductive hydrogel for medical applicationsCredit: © Christine Arndt Due to ...
Reactive boride infusion stabilizes ni-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries
Credit: UNIST A new coating for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), developed by scientists at UNIST promises extended driving for future electric ...
‘Opposite action’ could improve industrial gas separation
A design concept changes how materials separate gaseous mixturesCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University A more energy-efficient method improves how an industrial ...
Research finds surprising electron interaction in ‘magic-angle’ graphene
Credit: Li lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In 2018, physicists showed that something interesting happens when two sheets ...
Researchers help keep pace with Moore’s Law by exploring a new material class
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Northwestern University researchers create a new polymer-based electrical insulation for circuits that could ...
New perovskite fabrication method for solar cells paves way to large-scale production
Sulfolane-additive process yields easy fabrication, low cost, top performance, long operating lifeCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March ...