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Optimizing the properties and microstructure of bulk superconductors

1 week ago from Physorg

Superconductors are increasingly finding applications in several areas, such as medical imaging techniques, drug delivery systems, energy storage systems, levitation processes, and water purification methods. This can be attributed to...

A novel green photoreactor for the synthesis of desirable chiral enantiomers

1 week ago from Physorg

Chirality of molecules is a crucial consideration in drug development as the enantiomeric purity of a compound can significantly impact its pharmacological properties. Chiral molecules possess mirror-image enantiomers that can...

Tiny gold particles can help harness energy from the sun to break down pollution

1 week ago from Physorg

When organic pollutants such as dyes, agricultural chemicals, and pharmaceuticals enter waterways all around the world, they can harm the environment and human health—and removing them can be incredibly difficult.

Study that challenged validity of elemental analysis leads to scientific journals changing guidelines

1 week ago from Physorg

In 1923, Austrian chemist Fritz Pregl was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contributions to quantitative microanalysis as it became an essential tool to determine the elements present...

Researchers develop stepwise strategy for carbon dioxide reduction to multicarbon products

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from UPI

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Harvard Science

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from UPI

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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

1 week ago from Physorg

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,...