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September 9, 2016

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Tough New Catalyst Helps Split Water Cheaply

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Tapping the Unused Potential of Photosynthesis

Sep. 7, 2016 — Scientists have reengineered the fundamental process of photosynthesis to power useful chemical reactions that could be used to produce biofuels, pharmaceuticals and ... read more

Breakthrough in Materials Science: Scientists Bond Metals With Nearly All Surfaces

Sep. 7, 2016 — How metals can be used depends particularly on the characteristics of their surfaces. A research team has discovered how ... read more

New Perovskite Research Discoveries May Lead to Solar Cell, LED Advances

Sep. 7, 2016 — 'Promising' and 'remarkable' are two words a scientist has used to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites. Perovskites are optically active, ... read more

Researchers Design Solids That Control Heat With Spinning Superatoms

Sep. 6, 2016 — Superatom crystals are periodic arrangements of C60 fullerenes and similarly sized inorganic molecular clusters. There are two nearly identical formations, one with rotating ... read more

Low-Cost and Defect-Free Graphene

Sep. 2, 2016 — Graphene is one of the most promising new materials. However, researchers across the globe are still looking for a way to produce defect-free graphene at low costs. Chemists ... read more

Transition Point in Semiconductor Nanomaterials

Aug. 31, 2016 — Collaborative research has demonstrated that electronic interactions play a significant role in the dimensional crossover of semiconductor ... read more

Lowering the Cost and Environmental Footprint of White LEDs

Aug. 31, 2016 — Replacing traditional light bulbs with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) could take a significant bite out of global energy consumption. But making white LEDs isn't completely benign or budget friendly. ... read more

A Virtual Flight Through a Catalyst Particle Finds Evidence of Poisoning

Aug. 30, 2016 — Merging two powerful 3-D X-ray techniques, a team of researchers have revealed new details of a process known as metal poisoning that clogs the pores of catalyst particles ... read more

Engineers Develop a Plastic Clothing Material That Cools the Skin

Sep. 1, 2016 — Researchers have engineered a low-cost plastic material that could become the basis for clothing that cools the wearer, reducing the need for energy-consuming ... read more

High-Speed 'Electron Camera' Films Atomic Nuclei in Vibrating Molecules

Aug. 31, 2016 — An ultrafast 'electron camera' has made the first direct snapshots of atomic nuclei in molecules that are vibrating within millionths of a billionth of a second after being ... read more

Severe Paralysis Partially Reversed Using Brain-Machine Interface Training

Autopilot Kit for Wheelchairs

Data Suggests There's Probably Not A New Particle Like We Thought

Micro Pac-Man Maze Craze

Killing Germs With Electron Beams

Sep. 6, 2016 — Medical products, packaging and food can be safely and efficiently sterilized with electron beams. In the future, researchers also plan to use accelerated electrons to eliminate germs from tissue ... read more

New Step Towards Clean Energy Production from Enzymes

Sep. 1, 2016 — Oxygen inhibits hydrogenases, a group of enzymes that are able to produce and split hydrogen. This degradation is fatal for possible biotechnological applications of these enzymes for the production ... read more

World’s First Ciliary Stroke Motion Microrobots

Aug. 31, 2016 — Scientists have developed microrobots with high propulsion efficiency in highly-viscous fluid environments, applying propulsion techniques that mimic the ciliary stroke motion of ... read more

Invisibility Cloak With Photonic Crystals

Aug. 31, 2016 — Almost as elusive as unicorns, finding practical materials for invisibility cloaking is challenging. Researchers have new ideas how to solve that. They're using crystal "atoms" made of ... read more

Researchers Peel Back Another Layer of Chemistry With 'Tender' X-Rays

Aug. 31, 2016 — Scientists can now directly probe a previously hard-to-see layer of chemistry thanks to a unique X-ray toolkit. A key breakthrough enabling the latest experiment was in tailoring “tender” ... read more

Shape of 'Molecular Graphene' Determines Electronic Properties

Aug. 31, 2016 — Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) form an important class of molecules, which can be regarded as small graphene species and which play a prominent role in the development of organic electronics. ... read more

Magnetism Under the Magnifying Glass

Aug. 31, 2016 — Being able to determine magnetic properties of materials with sub-nanometer precision would greatly simplify development of magnetic nano-structures for future spintronic devices. In a new article, ... read more

Plastic Crystals Could Improve Fabrication of Memory Devices

Aug. 31, 2016 — A novel 'plastic crystal' has switching properties suitable for memory-related ... read more

Diamonds and Quantum Information Processing on the Nano Scale

Aug. 30, 2016 — Physicists have successfully demonstrated charge transport between Nitrogen-Vacancy color centers in ... read more

Gold from Old Phones Is Real Prospect Thanks to Chemical Advance

Aug. 30, 2016 — Vast quantities of gold could be salvaged from old mobile phones using a simple chemical method, a study ... read more

Quest to Find the 'Missing Physics' at Play in Landslides

Aug. 30, 2016 — A recent discovery in the study of landslides, using annular shear cell measurements of granular flows, confirms that two flow regimes -- an 'elastic regime' and an 'inertial ... read more

'Helix-to-Tube' a Simple Strategy to Synthesize Covalent Organic Nanotubes

Aug. 30, 2016 — Organic nanotubes (ONTs) are tubular nanostructures composed of organic molecules that have unique properties and have found various applications, such as electro-conductive materials and organic ... read more

Super Cement's Secret

Aug. 29, 2016 — Mayenite is one smart cement -- it can be turned from an insulator to a transparent conductor and back. It is also suitable for use as semiconductors in flat panel displays. The secret behind ... read more

Electrons at the Speed Limit

Aug. 26, 2016 — Electronic components have become faster and faster over the years, thus making powerful computers and other technologies possible. Researchers have now investigated how fast electrons can ultimately ... read more

Insecticide Ryanodine: Building a Chemical from the Ground Up

Aug. 26, 2016 — Chemists have significantly improved upon the synthesis of a molecule related to muscle and neuronal function. A research team has been busy trying to crack the puzzle of the insecticide ryanodine, a ... read more

Better Batteries: Next-Generation Smart Separator Membranes

Aug. 26, 2016 — A new class of battery seperator has been engineered by a team of researchers, which is expected to bring unprecedented benefits to battery ... read more

Development of Chemical Sensing Material That Enables Smartphones to Detect Toxic Gases

Aug. 25, 2016 — A chemical sensing material has been developed whose electrical conductivity dramatically increases when exposed to toxic gases, report ... read more

Chemistry Professor Explores Outer Regions of Periodic Table

Aug. 25, 2016 — Scientists have captured the fundamental chemistry of the element berkelium, or Bk on the periodic ... read more

New 'Greener' Method Developed for Producing Some Metals

Aug. 25, 2016 — While trying to develop a new battery, researchers find a whole new energy-efficient way to produce some metals without creating air ... read more

Scientists Solve Puzzle of Converting Gaseous Carbon Dioxide to Fuel

Aug. 25, 2016 — Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming by injecting about 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists believe they've found a way to convert all these ... read more

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