Milestone in Advanced Light Source upgrade project will bring in a new ring
Construction of innovative accumulator ring as part of ALS-U project will keep Berkeley Lab at the forefront of synchrotron light ...
Tag: Molecular Physics
Nanobubbles in nanodroplets
Credit: Photo: AG Stienkemeier A team headed by Professor Frank Stienkemeier at Freiburg's Institute of Physics and Dr. Marcel Mudrich, ...
Computing with molecules: A big step in molecular spintronics
International research team lead by Kiel University developed more stable spin statesCredit: © Jan-Simon von Glasenapp and Rainer Herges Spintronics ...
Mechanical force as a new way of starting chemical reactions
Credit: Kubota K. et al. Science, December 19, 2019 Researchers have shown mechanical force can start chemical reactions, making them ...
Ultrashort x-ray technique will probe conditions found at the heart of planets
View and download more at: https://imperialcollegelondon.box.com/s/zk4njouzx74f6lqnwczppgkbww358ym7 view more Combining powerful lasers and bright x-rays, Imperial and STFC researchers have demonstrated ...
Research provides new design principle for water-splitting catalysts
Credit: Peterson Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Scientists have long known that platinum is by far the best ...
A new playbook for interference
NIST scientists correlate photon pairs of different colors generated in separate buildingsCredit: S. Kelley/NIST Particles can sometimes act like waves, ...
City College leads new photonics breakthrough
Credit: ITMO University A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led ...
Researchers add order to polymer gels
A new kind of soft elastic material has medical and technological applicationsCredit: Image: © 2019 Li et al. Gel-like materials ...
Bio-inspired hydrogel can rapidly switch to rigid plastic
Credit: Nonoyama T. et al., Advanced Materials, November 18, 2019 A new material that stiffens 1,800-fold when exposed to heat ...
UH physicist named to National Academy of Inventors
Seamus Curran launched nanotech company to market protective coatingsCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston physics professor has been ...
Electron correlations in carbon nanostructures
Physicists from Kiel and Copenhagen elucidate the behaviour of electrons in graphene nanoribbonsCredit: Copyright: Jan-Philip Joost, AG Bonitz New materials ...
Illuminating the path for super-resolution imaging with improved rhodamine dyes
DUT and SUTD researchers developed a new strategy that enhances the brightness and clarity of sub-cellular structures when dyed with ...
Scientists reveal the structure of viral rhodopsins
Credit: Dmitry Bratanov et al./Nature Communications The structure of an Organic Lake Phycodnavirus rhodopsin II (OLPVRII), which is a unique ...
SLAC scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser
Called XLEAP, the new method will provide sharp views of electrons in chemical processes that take place in billionths of ...
Controlling the optical properties of solids with acoustic waves
Credit: Adriel Dominguez (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg) One of the main challenges in materials science research is to achieve high ...
Daylight damage-saving time
A research team led by Kanazawa University studies the process by which the performance of advanced solar cells degrades over ...
The impact of molecular rotation on a peculiar isotope effect on water hydrogen bonds
Unveiling two deuteration effects on hydrogen-bond breaking process of water isotopomersCredit: NINS/IMS The physicochemical and biological properties of hydrogen-bonded systems ...
Molecular vibrations lead to high performance laser
Breakthrough method has implications for enhanced performance of lasers for communications, diagnostics and defenseCredit: Troan Tran Lasers. They are used ...
Researchers discover new way to split and sum photons with silicon
Credit: Lorenzo Mangolini/UC Riverside A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, ...