New biomaterial could shield against harmful radiation
New form of melanin has ability to protect human tissue from X-rays during medical treatment, spaceflightCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill.-- ...
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Boron nitride destroys PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals PFOA, GenX
Pollutant-destroying properties surprise Rice engineer: 'It's not supposed to work'Credit: Image courtesy of M. Wong/Rice University HOUSTON -- (July 7, ...
Shock-dissipating fractal cubes could forge high-tech armor
3D printed fractal structures with closely spaced voids dissipate shockwaves five times better than solid cubesCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
Researchers create air filter that can kill the coronavirus
Nickel foam filter catches, heats and kills the virus and other pathogensCredit: University of Houston Researchers from the University of ...
Searching for the silver lining in drinking water disinfection
Pitt Researchers receive $330K to test whether silver modified shower fixtures effectively prevent opportunistic pathogen exposureCredit: Sarah Haig PITTSBURGH (July ...
Contest between superconductivity and insulating states in Magic Angle Graphene
Credit: ©ICFO If you stack two layers of graphene one on top of the other, and rotate them at an ...
Excitation of robust materials
Kiel physics team observed extremely fast electronic changes in real time in a special material classCredit: © AG Bauer In ...
For cleaner air, water, and soil
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists ...
Princeton chemists resolve origin of perovskite instability
The source of thermodynamic instability found in "rattling" behaviorCredit: Figure by Daniel Straus Researchers in the Cava Group at the ...
Atomic ‘Swiss army knife’ precisely measures materials for quantum computers
NIST unveils blueprint for building a three-in-one measurement tool to study quantum materials.Credit: NIST It images single atoms. It maps ...
New insights into van der Waals materials found
Credit: Qingkai Qian, Penn State Layered van der Waals materials are of high interest for electronic and photonic applications, according ...
Story tips: Predicting fire risk, solid state stability check and images in a flash
Credit: Uvinduni Premadasa/ORNL, US Dept. of Energy Climate - Predicting fire risk Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a ...
New nano-engineering strategy shows potential for improved advanced energy storage
New types of cathodes, suitable for advanced energy storage, can be developed using beyond-lithium ion batteriesCredit: Supplied by University of ...
A new way towards super-fast motion of vortices in superconductors discovered
Credit: © Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy, University of Vienna Superconductivity is a physical phenomenon occurring at low temperatures in many materials which ...
Red-light LEDs for next-generation displays
Credit: © Zhe Zhuang In efforts to optimize the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), KAUST researchers are looking at every ...
2D semiconductors found to be close-to-ideal fractional quantum hall platform
Columbia researchers first to discover a quantum fluid--fractional quantum Hall states, one of the most delicate phases of matter--in a ...
Cell ‘membrane on a chip’ could speed up screening of drug candidates for COVID-19
Credit: Susan Daniel/Cornell University Researchers have developed a human cell 'membrane on a chip' that allows continuous monitoring of how ...
Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolution
Credit: John Labram, Oregon State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific ...
Carbon-loving materials designed to reduce industrial emissions
Credit: Credit: Zhenzhen Yang/University of Tennessee Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of ...
The lightest shielding material in the world
Protection against electromagnetic interferenceCredit: Empa Electric motors and electronic devices generate electromagnetic fields that sometimes have to be shielded in ...
