“Magic sand” might help us understand the physics of granular matter
Children's toy an ideal modifier for interparticle adhesion and mechanical propertiesCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo ...
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Sixth mirror casting brings Giant Magellan Telescope closer to completion
In a marvel of modern engineering that takes four years of effort, the 8.4-meter mirror is the second-to-last being made ...
Speeding up commercialization of electric vehicles
Credit: POSTECH Professor Byoungwoo Kang develops a high-density cathode material through controlling local structures of the Li-rich layered materials. Researchers ...
Taking 2D materials for a spin
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba and the Institute of High Pressure Physics fabricate a novel molybdenum disulfide transistor and ...
Porous crystal guides reaction to transform CO2
Credit: © 2021 KAUST By embedding a silver catalyst inside a porous crystal, KAUST researchers have improved a chemical reaction ...
Pressure-regulated excitonic feature enhances photocurrent of all-inorganic 2D perovski
Credit: Xujie Lü HPSTAR scientists Dr. Songhao Guo and Dr. Xujie Lü report three orders of magnitude increase in the ...
Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified
The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstancesCredit: Mj Riches In the 1995 movie ...
Dethroning electrocatalysts for hydrogen production with inexpensive alternative material
Credit: Tokyo Tech Today, we can say without a shadow of doubt that an alternative to fossil fuels is needed. ...
Saarbruecken chemists develop variety of industrially important synthetic process
Credit: Saarland University/Oliver Dietze The formation of double bonds between two carbon atoms (C=C) is of central significance in natural ...
Scientists develop elements for the future electronics
Researchers are developing thin films, the elements for biomolecular electronics.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Modern electronics is approaching ...
Story tips: Quantum building blocks, high-pressure diamonds, wildfire ecology and more
Credit: Ondrej Dyck, Andrew Lupini and Jacob Swett/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Materials - Quantum building blocks Oak Ridge National ...
High-performance electrocatalysts to propel development of direct ethanol fuel cells
Credit: YANG Jun Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Normal ...
Pumping perovskites into a semiconductor platform
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Heno Hwang Materials called perovskites can be more readily incorporated into silicon-based semiconducting platforms by using ...
New skills of Graphene: Tunable lattice vibrations
Credit: K. Höflich/HZB Without electronics and photonics, there would be no computers, smartphones, sensors, or information and communication technologies. In ...
Virtually unlimited solar cell experiments
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to design and virtually test molecules for organic solar cells, which can lead ...
When foams collapse (and when they don’t)
High-speed video microscopy reveals the complex mechanics of foam collapseCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan ...
High- performance 3D printer for titanium structures and In situ synthesis of alloys
3D printer for high-speed printing of titanium structuresCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg ...
Novel catalysts improve efficiency of urea synthesis at ambient conditions
Credit: ZHANG Guangjin and YUAN Menglei Converting both nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added urea molecules via C-N ...
Scientists investigated more thoroughly Walker breakdown in 3D magnetic nanowires
Credit: FEFU press office Physicists from Russia, Chile, Brazil, Spain, and the UK, have studied how the magnetic properties change ...
Theory could accelerate push for spintronic devices
Rice University models help ID materials for advanced electronics, computer memoriesCredit: Sunny Gupta/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2021) - ...