Nanotech plastic packaging could leach silver into some types of foods and beverages
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c17867 Antimicrobial packaging is being developed to extend the shelf ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
An innovative and non-destructive strategy to analyse material from Mars
The IBeA research group of the University of the Basque Country has proposed a method that can be used to ...
Hierarchical dynamics
Credit: Graphic: Steffen Wolf Consider for a moment a tree swaying in the wind. How long does it take for ...
Quantum tunneling in graphene advances the age of terahertz wireless communications
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a ...
“Ghost particle” ML model permits full quantum description of the solvated electron
Credit: @Vladimir Rybkin The behavior of the solvated electron e-aq has fundamental implications for electrochemistry, photochemistry, high-energy chemistry, as well ...
The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater
Credit: Graphics: Alfred Wegener Institute/Martin Künsting The Arctic Ocean was covered by up to 900 m thick shelf ice and ...
Thanks to machine learning, the future of catalyst research is now!
New study defies conventions and proposes a technology-driven method to identify useful catalyst combinationsCredit: JAIST To date, research in the ...
Discoveries at the edge of the periodic table: first ever measurements of einsteinium
Experiments by Berkeley Lab scientists on this highly radioactive element reveal some unexpected propertiesCredit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab Since element 99 ...
From waste heat to electrical power: A new generation of thermomagnetic generators
Alloy film thickness and footprint influence electrical power -- publication in JouleCredit: Photo: IMT/KIT Use of waste heat contributes largely ...
Novel 3D printed stents deliver breakthrough treatment for oesophageal cancer
Credit: UniSA World-first 3D printed oesophageal stents developed by the University of South Australia could revolutionise the delivery of chemotherapy ...
Dynamics of radiocesium in forests after the Fukushima disaster: Concerns and some hope
Scientists compile available data and analyses on the flow of radionuclides to gain a more holistic understandingCredit: Forestry and Forest ...
Retrained generic antibodies can recognize SARS-CoV-2
Credit: UIC The SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus behind the current pandemic, infects humans by binding its surface-exposed spike proteins to ...
First images of muon beams
The quality of muon beams can now be assessed thanks to a new technique that has produced the first known ...
Load-reducing backpack powers electronics by harvesting energy from walking
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07498 Hikers, soldiers and school children all know the burden of a heavy ...
Standard water treatment technique removes and inactivates an enveloped virus
Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c07697 Enveloped viruses have been detected in raw sewage and sludge, ...
A new hands-off probe uses light to explore electron behavior in a topological insulator
Just as pressing a guitar string produces a higher pitch, sending laser light through a material can shift it to ...
A show of force: Novel polymer that toughens up and changes color upon mechanical stress
Credit: Tokyo Tech A fascinating and crucial ability of biological tissue, such as muscle, is self-healing and self-strengthening in response ...
UTEP fights superbugs with $1.2 Million NIH grant to produce antibiotics
Credit: J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications EL PASO, Texas - Chu-Young Kim, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at ...
Researchers develop 10-minute COVID-19 diagnostic test that wage workers can afford
Technology based on nanoparticles identifies IgG antibodies and costs only about a fifth of similar devices now on the market. ...
Beyond qubits: Sydney takes next big step to scale up quantum computing
In partnership with Microsoft, Sydney scientists have removed a roadblock to scaling up quantum machinesCredit: University of Sydney Scientists and ...
