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Tag: Molecular Physics
Scientists invent a new method of generating intense short UV vortices
An international group of scientists, including Skoltech Professor Sergey Rykovanov, has found a way to generate intense “twisted” pulses. The vortices discovered by the scientists will help investigate new materials. The results of their study were published in the prestigious…
UT quantum materials researcher receives $1.7M Moore Foundation Award
A materials science professor in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Tickle College of Engineering has received a five-year $1.7 million award from a leading scientific research foundation to pursue cutting-edge work in the emerging field of quantum materials. David Mandrus,…
Texas A&M engineers develop recipe to dramatically strengthen body armor
According to ancient lore, Genghis Khan instructed his horsemen to wear silk vests underneath their armor to better protect themselves against an onslaught of arrows during battle. Since the time of Khan, body armor has significantly evolved — silk has…
Texas A&M engineers develop recipe to dramatically strengthen body armor
According to ancient lore, Genghis Khan instructed his horsemen to wear silk vests underneath their armor to better protect themselves against an onslaught of arrows during battle. Since the time of Khan, body armor has significantly evolved — silk has…
Texas A&M engineers develop recipe to dramatically strengthen body armor
According to ancient lore, Genghis Khan instructed his horsemen to wear silk vests underneath their armor to better protect themselves against an onslaught of arrows during battle. Since the time of Khan, body armor has significantly evolved — silk has…
New self-assembled monolayer is resistant to air
Buckyballs can pave the way for molecular electronics
New self-assembled monolayer is resistant to air
Buckyballs can pave the way for molecular electronics
New technique to study molecules and materials on quantum simulator discovered
A new technique to study the properties of molecules and materials on a quantum simulator has been discovered. The ground-breaking new technique, by physicist Oleksandr Kyriienko from the University of Exeter, could pioneer a new pathway towards the next generation…
New technique to study molecules and materials on quantum simulator discovered
A new technique to study the properties of molecules and materials on a quantum simulator has been discovered. The ground-breaking new technique, by physicist Oleksandr Kyriienko from the University of Exeter, could pioneer a new pathway towards the next generation…
Quantum physics: Controlled experiment observes self-organized criticality
Writing in Nature , researchers describe the first-time observation of ‘self-organized criticality’ in a controlled laboratory experiment. Complex systems exist in mathematics and physics, but also occur in nature and society. The concept of self-organized criticality claims that without external…
Quantum physics: Controlled experiment observes self-organized criticality
Writing in Nature , researchers describe the first-time observation of ‘self-organized criticality’ in a controlled laboratory experiment. Complex systems exist in mathematics and physics, but also occur in nature and society. The concept of self-organized criticality claims that without external…
Quantum physics: Controlled experiment observes self-organized criticality
Writing in Nature , researchers describe the first-time observation of ‘self-organized criticality’ in a controlled laboratory experiment. Complex systems exist in mathematics and physics, but also occur in nature and society. The concept of self-organized criticality claims that without external…
The mysterious movement of water molecules
Water is a mysterious substance. Understanding how it behaves at the atomic level is still a challenge for experimental physicists, as light hydrogen and oxygen atoms are difficult to observe using conventional experimental methods. This is especially true for any…
The mysterious movement of water molecules
Water is a mysterious substance. Understanding how it behaves at the atomic level is still a challenge for experimental physicists, as light hydrogen and oxygen atoms are difficult to observe using conventional experimental methods. This is especially true for any…
A novel way to watch paint dry
Lehigh engineering professor James Gilchrist is collaborating with PPG, Case Western to apply microrheology to auto paints–an approach that could slash car makers’ energy use, costs
A novel way to watch paint dry
Lehigh engineering professor James Gilchrist is collaborating with PPG, Case Western to apply microrheology to auto paints–an approach that could slash car makers’ energy use, costs
Physicists prove that 2D and 3D liquids are fundamentally different
A 50-year-old puzzle in statistical mechanics has been solved by an international team of researchers who have proved that two-dimensional (2D) liquids have fundamentally different dynamical properties to three-dimensional (3D) liquids. Researchers routinely use 2D experiments and simulations to represent…
Thermolysis helps rid petroleum of viscous components
A President of Russia grant has been obtained by the In-Situ Combustion Lab
Improving solar cells’ back-contact is goal of $3.5 million DOE project
Before cadmium telluride solar cells can corner the market, they require further improvement in their performance
Visualizing chemical reactions, e.g. from H2 and CO2 to synthetic natural gas
Researchers at EPFL have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that has allowed them to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas from CO2 and H2 for the first time
Scientists observe ultrafast chemistry in water caused by ionizing radiation
An international research team jointly led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Germany’s Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) has for the first time observed the ultrafast formation and then breakdown of…
Randomness opens the gates to the land of attophotography
One of the last obstacles hindering the photography and filming of processes occurring on a scale of attoseconds, i.e. billionths of a billionth of a second, has disappeared. The key to its removal lies in the random nature of the…
Scientists observe ultrafast chemistry in water caused by ionizing radiation
An international research team jointly led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Germany’s Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) has for the first time observed the ultrafast formation and then breakdown of…
Randomness opens the gates to the land of attophotography
One of the last obstacles hindering the photography and filming of processes occurring on a scale of attoseconds, i.e. billionths of a billionth of a second, has disappeared. The key to its removal lies in the random nature of the…
McGill researchers honored in Québec Science 2019 list of top discoveries
Four out of 10 top discoveries in 2019 led by McGill scientists
Milestone in Advanced Light Source upgrade project will bring in a new ring
Construction of innovative accumulator ring as part of ALS-U project will keep Berkeley Lab at the forefront of synchrotron light source science
Researchers take exploration of key ‘building block’ particles into space
As part of SpaceX’s CRS-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched Dec. 5, researchers from NASA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New York University (NYU) are set to begin a new scientific investigation to explore…
Nanobubbles in nanodroplets
A team headed by Professor Frank Stienkemeier at Freiburg’s Institute of Physics and Dr. Marcel Mudrich, professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, has observed the ultrafast reaction of nanodroplets of helium after excitation with extreme ultraviolet radiation (XUV)…
Milestone in Advanced Light Source upgrade project will bring in a new ring
Construction of innovative accumulator ring as part of ALS-U project will keep Berkeley Lab at the forefront of synchrotron light source science
Researchers take exploration of key ‘building block’ particles into space
As part of SpaceX’s CRS-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched Dec. 5, researchers from NASA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New York University (NYU) are set to begin a new scientific investigation to explore…
Nanobubbles in nanodroplets
A team headed by Professor Frank Stienkemeier at Freiburg’s Institute of Physics and Dr. Marcel Mudrich, professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, has observed the ultrafast reaction of nanodroplets of helium after excitation with extreme ultraviolet radiation (XUV)…
Computing with molecules: A big step in molecular spintronics
International research team lead by Kiel University developed more stable spin states
Ultrashort x-ray technique will probe conditions found at the heart of planets
Combining powerful lasers and bright x-rays, Imperial and STFC researchers have demonstrated a technique that will allow new extreme experiments. The new technique would be able to use a single x-ray flash to capture information about extremely dense and hot…
Mechanical force as a new way of starting chemical reactions
Researchers have shown mechanical force can start chemical reactions, making them cheaper, more broadly applicable, and more environmentally friendly than conventional methods. Chemical reactions are most conventionally prompted by heating up the reaction mixtures. Within the last ten years, there…
Mechanical force as a new way of starting chemical reactions
Researchers have shown mechanical force can start chemical reactions, making them cheaper, more broadly applicable, and more environmentally friendly than conventional methods. Chemical reactions are most conventionally prompted by heating up the reaction mixtures. Within the last ten years, there…
Ultrashort x-ray technique will probe conditions found at the heart of planets
Combining powerful lasers and bright x-rays, Imperial and STFC researchers have demonstrated a technique that will allow new extreme experiments. The new technique would be able to use a single x-ray flash to capture information about extremely dense and hot…
Research provides new design principle for water-splitting catalysts
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Scientists have long known that platinum is by far the best catalyst for splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen gas. A new study by Brown University researchers shows why platinum works so well — and…
Nanopores can identify the amino acids in proteins, the first step to sequencing
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — While DNA sequencing is a useful tool for determining what’s going on in a cell or a person’s body, it only tells part of the story. Protein sequencing could soon give researchers a wider window into a…
Drops of liquid crystal molecules branch out into strange structures
Shaped by surface tension and elasticity, University of Pennsylvania researchers find that spherical drops of chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform upon cooling into complex shapes with long-reaching tendrils
Research provides new design principle for water-splitting catalysts
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Scientists have long known that platinum is by far the best catalyst for splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen gas. A new study by Brown University researchers shows why platinum works so well — and…
Nanopores can identify the amino acids in proteins, the first step to sequencing
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — While DNA sequencing is a useful tool for determining what’s going on in a cell or a person’s body, it only tells part of the story. Protein sequencing could soon give researchers a wider window into a…
Drops of liquid crystal molecules branch out into strange structures
Shaped by surface tension and elasticity, University of Pennsylvania researchers find that spherical drops of chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform upon cooling into complex shapes with long-reaching tendrils
A new playbook for interference
NIST scientists correlate photon pairs of different colors generated in separate buildings
A new playbook for interference
NIST scientists correlate photon pairs of different colors generated in separate buildings
City College leads new photonics breakthrough
A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in the transfer speed of data online. Research into topological photonic metamaterials headed by City College…
City College leads new photonics breakthrough
A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in the transfer speed of data online. Research into topological photonic metamaterials headed by City College…
Researchers perfect nanoscience tool for studies of nuclear waste storage
This study involved the first-ever use of antimatter to investigate processes connected to potential long-term storage of waste from nuclear reactor
Researchers perfect nanoscience tool for studies of nuclear waste storage
This study involved the first-ever use of antimatter to investigate processes connected to potential long-term storage of waste from nuclear reactor
Liquid flow is influenced by a quantum effect in water
Water is the basis of all life on earth. Its structure is simple – two hydrogen atoms bound to one oxygen atom – yet its behavior is unique among liquids, and scientists still do not fully understand the origins of…