Water that never freezes
Credit: ETH Zurich Making ice cubes is a simple process: you take a plastic ice-cube tray like you'd find in ...
Tag: Molecular Physics
New guideline decreases breast cancer re-operation rates
Patients can avoid added stress and potential surgical complicationsCredit: UBC Okanagan photo A UBC medical student has determined that a ...
Nature could provide the answer for blindness caused by diabetes, say experts
Mother Nature could have the answer to treating several causes of blindness, according to a ground-breaking study involving scientists from ...
Elements can be solid and liquid at the same time, study reveals
Scientists have discovered a new state of physical matter in which atoms can exist as both solid and liquid simultaneously. ...
Amorphous materials will be used in medical and industrial applications
Relevant research by Kazan University appeared in Acta Materialia and will be supported by the Russian Science Foundation.Credit: Kazan Federal ...
Degradable plastics
Professor Stefan Mecking, Chair of Chemical Materials Science at the University of Konstanz, receives an Advanced Grant from the European ...
New biologically derived metal-organic framework mimics DNA
Credit: Peter G. Boyd/EPFL The field of materials science has become abuzz with "metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs), versatile compounds made up ...
Liquid jets break up more readily on a substrate
Using computational models to investigate how liquid drops behave on surfaces Whether we're aware of it or not, in day-to-day ...
Ushering in ultrafast cluster electronics
Credit: Tachikawa H., et al. Scientific Reports, Feb. 20, 2019 A new computational method can help fast track the development ...
UCI scientists are first to observe, image all-important molecular vibrations
Using light focused to size of an atom, they push resolution of microscopy to new levelCredit: Steve Zylius / UCI ...
Insects in freezing regions have a protein that acts like antifreeze
Special protein changes the structure of water and overpowers ice crystals, and could be used in applications like de-icing airplanes, ...
A universal description of non-equilibrium colloid phase separation
Tokyo, Japan - Liquids, with their flowing dynamics, are often far from equilibrium. This makes it particularly hard to model ...
AD alloyed nanoantennas for temperature-feedback identification of viruses and explosives
All-dielectric nanoantennas remain chemically non-invasive, they cause no effect on the studied analytes and reactions.Credit: FEFU press office Scientists of ...
Breakthrough study of cell signaling holds promise for immune research and beyond
A team of physical chemists has unraveled the inner workings of a process that allows hard-working T cells to tune ...