Molecular Physics

Development of ice controlling technology using pressureCredit: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) Can water freeze at room temperature or even higher temperatures at which ordinary water boils? Formation of…
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Materials that shrink when heated -- changing colour from black to golden -- could save expensive electronics from heat damageCredit: K. Takenaka/John Wojdylo One way that heat damages electronic equipment is it makes components expand…
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Credit: Kanazawa University The living cell can be viewed as a factory where protein machines are in charge of various processes, such as transport of material inside the cell or operations with other macromolecules like DNA. Their…
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Scientists consider the form that may be 'just right' for scripting gene expressionCredit: Michelle Fredricks, UC San Diego Physical Sciences The Goldilocks of fairy-tale fame knew something about porridge. It needed to be just…
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Credit: FIGURE ADAPTED with permission from the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 21, 4587-4593. Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society Before and after comparisons don't tell the full story of chemical reactions in flowing…
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Scientists reveal the inter-cluster and intra-cluster dynamics of thiolate-protected gold-silver alloys, which is based on metal exchange From effective medicines to molecular sensors to fuel cells, metal clusters are becoming…
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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigate a new method for generating coherent signals in silicon chips using laser-induced vibrations which may greatly accelerate the development of new quantum computers with superior…
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Credit: Murillo Longo Martins Cancer research: A new study on the behavior of water in cancer cells shows how methods usually limited to physics can be of great use in cancer research. The researchers, Murillo Longo Martins and…
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The mysterious function of a key protein has been revealed following a breakthrough by University of Dundee scientists The mysterious function of a key protein has been revealed following a breakthrough by University of Dundee scientists.…
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Human body communication can make data networks radically saferCredit: Dairoku Muramatsu & Yoshifumi Nishida Source: Equivalent Circuit Model Viewed from Receiver Side in Human Body Communication Wireless technologies such…
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Credit: Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Christian Wagner A team of researchers from Jülich in cooperation with the University of Magdeburg has developed a new method to measure the electric potentials of a sample at…
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A decade of research leads MU scientists to a better understanding of how materials move out of cellsCredit: University of Missouri The flow of traffic through our nation's highways and byways is meticulously mapped and studied, but less…
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Direct atom-resolved imaging of magnetic materialsCredit: JST Under the JST-SENTAN program (Development of System and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis, Japan Science and Technology Agency), the joint development…
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Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - A team at Osaka University has created single-molecule nanowires, complete with an insulation layer, up to 10 nanometers in length. When they measured the electrical properties of these nanowires,…
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