Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, contributed to a groundbreaking experiment published in Science that tracks
Jan 5, 2021
Habanero peppers can do more than burn our mouths and make us sweaty. Their applications extend beyond the culinary world. While their abundance and flavor make them a staple in hot sauces and spicy cuisines, habaneros could also find use for synt...
Jan 5, 2021
If the stacking structure of a Covalent Organic Framework is even slightly shifted, its properties change dramatically. This happens more often than assumed, as chemists were able to demonstrate.
Jan 5, 2021
Scientists have obtained some of the sharpest possible 3D images of gold nanoparticles. The resuts lay the foundation for obtaining high resolution images of macromolecules.
Jan 5, 2021
An international team of scientists led by Kartik Ayyer from the MPSD has obtained some of the sharpest possible 3-D images of gold nanoparticles. The results lay the foundation for obtaining high resolution images of macromolecules. The study was...
Jan 5, 2021
Creating a powerful, large-scale quantum computer depends on a clever design such that many qubits (the building block of a quantum computer) can be controlled and read out. Researchers at QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft and TNO, have inv...
Jan 5, 2021
The University of Michigan has successfully demonstrated the "charge separation effect," predicted over a decade ago, which has important potential for direct conversion of light to electricity without the thermodynamic losses typical of...
Jan 5, 2021
Skyrmions—tiny magnetic whirls that appear in certain combinations of materials—are considered promising information carriers for future data storage. A research team from RWTH Aachen University, Kiel University, and the University of Iceland has ...
Jan 5, 2021
Catalysts form part of numerous aspects of modern society. They accelerate crucial chemical reactions, supporting industrial manufacturing, and minimizing hazardous emissions. Schematic of the setup...
Jan 5, 2021
Scientists have discovered that skyrmions untie themselves in two distinct ways. Using a magnetic field, the probability to succeed in untying can be varied by up to a factor of 10,000. This insight might be groundbreaking for future information p...
Jan 5, 2021
