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Crystalline 'nanobrush' clears way to advanced energy and information tech
Engineers have synthesized a tiny structure with high surface area and discovered how its unique architecture drives ions across interfaces to transport energy or information. Their 'nanobrush' contains bristles made...
Tiny, magnetically powered neural stimulator
Neuroengineers have created a tiny surgical implant that can electrically stimulate the brain and nervous system without using a battery or wired power supply.
Integrating nanomaterial with light-absorbing molecule powers hydrogen production from water and sun
Scientists have developed a hybrid material constructed from a metal oxide nanosheet and a light-absorbing molecule for splitting water molecules (H2O) to obtain dihydrogen (H2) under sunlight. Since H2 can...
Tear gas during COVID-19 is a public health disaster
Protesters in Washington, D.C. faced off with canisters of tear gas at the end of May. (Koshu Kunii/Unsplash/)Grey clouds waft over scattering crowds in the footage from Seattle this past Sunday. The yells...
Chemists have induced uniform chirality
Chirality is a fundamental property of many organic molecules and means that chemical compounds can appear in not only one form, but in two mirror-image forms as well. Chemists have...
Upgraded B61-12 nuclear weapon compatible with F-15E, Air Force tests show
The upgraded version of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb is compatible with the F-15E Strike Eagle, the first aircraft certified for the weapon, according to tests by the U.S. Air...
Red tape may have a silver lining for micro businesses: new study
Small business owners who complain about excessive regulation may be overlooking the business benefits it brings, according to a new study from the University of Bath.
NFL issues protocols for when players are allowed to return to facilities
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell issued an in-depth memo to the 32 teams, outlining the protocols for when players are allowed to return to team facilities.
Crystalline 'nanobrush' clears way to advanced energy and information tech
A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory synthesized a tiny structure with high surface area and discovered how its unique architecture drives ions across interfaces...
USS Ronald Reagan, carrier strike group begin 2020 deployment
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, with its strike group and air wing, has been forward deployed to the Indo-Pacific theater, the Navy announced on Monday.
Novel eco-friendly electrochemical reaction can synthesize useful semiconductor materials
Organic solar cells have a variety of applications in the field of electronics, especially in the development of novel electronic devices like wearable devices. Often, these batteries are composed of...
Chemists are able to induce uniform chirality
Chirality is a fundamental property of many organic molecules and means that chemical compounds can appear in not only one form, but in two mirror-image forms as well. Chemists at...
Researchers advance fuel cell technology
Researchers have made a key advance in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that could make the highly energy-efficient and low-polluting technology a more viable alternative to gasoline combustion engines for...
Transparent graphene electrodes might lead to new generation of solar cells
A new way of making large sheets of high-quality, atomically thin graphene could lead to ultra-lightweight, flexible solar cells, and to new classes of light-emitting devices and other thin-film electronics....
Varieties of functionalized aromatics expanded by heteroatom-participated lignin cleavage
Lignin is the aromatic polymer fragment of lignocellulose, which is the richest renewable aromatic carbon source in nature. The depolymerization of lignin and the preparation of a wide variety of...
Novel computer-assisted chemical synthesis method cuts research time and cost
Hokkaido University scientists have succeeded in synthesizing an α,α-difluoroglycine derivative, a type of α-amino acid, based on a reaction path predicted by quantum chemical calculations. This novel method, combining experimental...
Human hair used to make flexible displays for smart devices
Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University have developed a method for turning small hair strands into carbon nanodots, which are tiny, uniform dots that are one-millionth...
Researchers reveal molecular basis for assembly of RuBisCO assisted by chaperone Raf1
A team led by Prof. Zhou Congzhao and Prof. Chen Yuxing from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) reported the crystal structures of...
MIT startup wraps food in silk for better shelf life
Benedetto Marelli, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, was a postdoc at Tufts University's Omenetto Lab when he stumbled upon a novel use for silk. Preparing for...
New coating material for surgical tools
Spin-off company NChemi Engineering Nanomaterials, created from the Center for the Development of Functional Materials (CDMF) in Brazil, has presented new technology resulting from projects developed by the Universitat Jaume...
How hard-to-recycle plastic is being made as good as new
New recycling technologies currently being tested may allow plastics such as single-use food packaging, fibre-reinforced car parts and mattress foam—polymers which often wind up in landfills or are incinerated—to have...
Novel probes of the strong force: Precision jet substructure and the Lund jet plane
A hallmark of the strong force at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the dramatic production of collimated jets of particles when quarks and gluons scatter at high energies. Particle...
Doing more with terahertz: simplifying near-infrared spectroscopy systems
Spectroscopy has roots in early 19th century curiosity about interactions between matter and electromagnetic radiation. Thanks to advances in electronics and materials science, various spectroscopy techniques are now routinely used...
Transparent graphene electrodes might lead to new generation of solar cells
A new way of making large sheets of high-quality, atomically thin graphene could lead to ultra-lightweight, flexible solar cells, and to new classes of light-emitting devices and other thin-film electronics.
Column One: How do you sign 'Black Lives Matter' in ASL? For black deaf Angelenos, it's complicated
For deaf Angelenos of color, and particularly those who are black, the language they sign among themselves is strikingly different from what's on TV. The tension is evident in a...
Magnetic liquid structure elucidated through hybrid reverse Monte Carlo simulation
A research team lead by Ryusuke Futamura of Shinshu University investigated the response of magnetic ionic liquids (MIL) to magnetic fields from the microscopic view points. Magnetic fluids, which can...
Scientists iron out the physics of wrinkling
Researchers have shown how wrinkles can be increased or reduced by altering the curvature at the edge of a material.
Lower cost and durable smart window technology
Researchers have developed an improved method for controlling smart tinting on windows that could make them cheaper, more effective and more durable than current options on the market.