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Researchers develop stepwise strategy for carbon dioxide reduction to multicarbon products
Though efficient C2+ production from CO2 electrocatalytic reduction reaction (CO2ERR) has become a promising approach to mitigate CO2 emissions and store intermittent renewable energy, it suffers from low selectivity and...
Turning up the heat
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists found that a small tweak created big performance improvements in a type of solid-state battery, a technology considered vital to broader electric vehicle adoption.
Quantum visualization technique gives insight into photosynthesis
Systems obeying quantum mechanics are notoriously difficult to visualize, but researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed an illustration technique that displays quantum features in an easy-to-read diagram...
Japan to invest heavily in hydrogen for energy sector
A massive investment of more than $100 billion will go toward building up hydrogen in the Japanese energy sector, the government announced Tuesday.
Illuminating the molecular ballet in living cells using an ultrafast camera
Researchers at Kyoto University, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), and Photron Limited in Japan have developed the world's fastest camera capable of detecting fluorescence from single...
Baylor Chemist-led Study Leads to Scientific Journals Changing Guidelines
Elemental Analysis is so widely adopted that chemistry journals require this technique to publish any new compound. The standard of the value obtained being plus or minus of 0.4% of...
RNA Institute Researchers Advance DNA Nanostructure Stability
Researchers at the University at Albany's RNA Institute have demonstrated a new approach to DNA nanostructure assembly that does not require magnesium. The method improves the biostability of the structures,...
Why there might be life out there unlike any on Earth
Imagine the possibility of life forms on other planets that don’t resemble any on Earth. What might they look like, and why would they be so different? Juan Pérez-Mercader says it may...
Anti-counterfeiting fluorescent marker developed
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) has developed a method that could make it more difficult to counterfeit products in the future....
Catalysis under the microscope is more complex than expected, shows new study
Catalysts composed from tiny metal particles play an important role in many areas of technology—from fuel cells to production of synthetic fuels for energy storage. The exact behavior of catalysts...
Scientists detect exponential relaxation spectrum in glasses
Prof. Wang Junqiang's team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the exponential relaxation events during the recovery process...
French Open: Sabalenka, Muchova clinch semis spots; Gauff to meet Swiatek
Aryna Sabalenka and Karolina Muchova needed fewer than 100 minutes to dispatch of their quarterfinal foes and advance to the semifinals of the 2023 French Open with straight-sets victories Tuesday...
Scientists discover a new proton conductor for next-generation fuel cells
The discovery of Ba2LuAlO5 as a promising proton conductor paints a bright future for protonic ceramic fuel cells, report scientists from Tokyo Tech. Experiments show that this novel material has...
Precision Nuclear Physics in Indium-115 Beta Decay Spectrum using Cryogenic Detectors
Nuclei such as Indium-115 (In-115) are extremely long lived, with half-lives of more than 100 billion years. These nuclei allow scientists to probe elusive high energy nuclear states. In a...
Swarming microrobots self-organize into diverse patterns
A research collaboration between Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has found an efficient way to expand the collective behavior of swarming microrobots: Mixing different sizes of...
New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a more energy-efficient, tunable superconducting diode--a promising component for future electronic devices--that could help scale up quantum computers for industry and...
New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new superconducting diode, a key component in electronic devices, that could help scale up quantum computers for industry use and...
Quantum computers are better at guessing, new study demonstrates
Daniel Lidar, the Viterbi Professor of Engineering at USC and Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, and first author Dr. Bibek Pokharel, a Research Scientist...
Striking gold with black, brown and red rice
Fundamental research offers opportunities for new varieties of pigmented rice and a resource to address malnutrition.
New strategy can harvest chemical information on rare isotopes with a fraction of the material
Studying radioactive materials is very difficult due to the potential health risks they pose to scientists. Expense is also a major barrier, with some radioisotopes costing more than $10,000 per...
A Low-Energy 'Off Switch' for Quark-Gluon Plasma
systematically varying the amount of energy involved in collisions of gold nuclei, scientists have shown that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) exists in collisions at energies from 200 billion electron volts...
New Strategy Can Harvest Chemical Information on Rare Isotopes with a Fraction of the Material
Studying radioactive materials is very difficult due to the potential health risks, the cost, and the difficulty of producing some radioisotopes. Scientists recently developed a new approach to harvest detailed...
A simple solution for nuclear matter in two dimensions
Understanding the behavior of nuclear matter—including the quarks and gluons that make up the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei—is extremely complicated. This is particularly true in our world, which...
Degradable polyethylene plastics from the nonalternating terpolymerization of ethylene, CO, and polar monomers
In a study published in the journal National Science Review and led by Dr. Zhongbao Jian (State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry,...
Simultaneous multi-material embedded printing for 3D heterogeneous structures
Publishing in the journal International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, the team led by researchers based at the State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems deposited different biomaterials simultaneously...
Wearable textile captures energy from body movement to power devices
Nanoscientists have developed a wearable textile that can convert body movement into useable electricity and even store that energy. The fabric potentially has a wide range of applications from medical...
Quantum computers are better at guessing, new study demonstrates
Daniel Lidar, the Viterbi Professor of Engineering at USC and Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, and Dr. Bibek Pokharel, a Research Scientist at IBM...
Direct air capture technology licensed to Knoxville-based Holocene
An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused...