An innovative catalyst with Pt, Re and SnO2 nanoparticles as anode material in ethanol fuel cells
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Scientists working at the Department for Functional Nanomaterials at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the ...
Tag: Materials
New model helps to describe defects and errors in quantum computers
Credit: Fernando Gómez-Ruiz - Donostia International Physics Center A summer internship in Bilbao, Spain, has led to a paper in ...
OU researcher receives Department of Energy Early Career Award
Credit: Provided by Dr. Bayram Saparov, University of Oklahoma Bayram Saparov, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and ...
Order out of disorder in ice
Credit: Chuanlong Lin The glass structure of a material is often believed to mimic its corresponding liquid. Polyamorphism between ices ...
Exotic mixtures
X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and starsCredit: HZDR / Sahneweiß Recreating extreme conditions in the ...
Nature-imitating coating makes batteries more durable and efficient
Aalto University's researchers were the first in the world to make use of carbon dioxide in the production of a ...
Australian awarded Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science, Royal Society of Chemistry
FLEET/UNSW's Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh awarded prestigious prizeCredit: UNSW FLEET CI Professor Kourosh Kaantar-zadeh (UNSW Sydney) has been awarded the prestigious 2020 ...
Rice professor attracts grant to study magnetism
DOE Early Career award to physicist Ming Yi backs experiments on 2D materialsCredit: Jeff FItlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 23, ...
Using chaos as a tool, scientists discover new method of making 3D-heterostructures
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from ...
Laser allows solid-state refrigeration of a semiconductor material
Credit: Anupum Pant To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show ...
Physicist Andrea Alù selected for a highly competitive Simons Collaboration Research Award
Supported by a major multi-year funding, the collaboration seeks to change our understanding and control of wave propagation, enabling leapfrog ...
Lack of damage after secondary impacts surprises researchers
Study on damage caused by high-velocity impacts provides answers about how materials exposed to secondary shocks recompactCredit: David Jones WASHINGTON, ...
Lehigh University awarded state grant to develop coronavirus-killing functional material
With support from Manufacturing PA Innovation Program, industry-academic partnership through Lehigh's Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) will work ...
Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itself
Light interacts with itself to form self-sustaining waves in an artificial 'topological' materialCredit: Rechtsman Laboratory, Penn State Laser light traveling ...
Like oil and water
Pitt ChemE professor receives $110k ACS PRF grant for novel 3D-printed oil-water separating membrane for gas and petroleum industryCredit: University ...
ExOne licenses ORNL method to 3D print components for refined neutron scattering
Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has licensed ...
A fresh twist in chiral topology
Credit: © MPI CPfS The concept of chirality is well-established in science: when an object cannot be superimposed on its ...
Dirac electrons come back to life in magic-angle graphene
A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer grapheneCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science In 2018 it was discovered that ...
Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world
Quantum teleportation is an important step in improving quantum computingCredit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster "Beam me ...
Researchers pioneer new production method for heterostructure devices
Credit: Darren Nutting and Dr Freddie Withers/ University of Exeter Researchers at the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering ...
