A group of materials scientists has shown that a palladium-based intermetallic electride can improve the efficiency of carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions. Their findings point the way to a more sustainable world through catalysis.
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers investigated the influence of the underlying crystal on graphene's electrical resistance. Contrary to previous assumptions, results show that the process known as the 'proximity effect' varies considerably at a nanometre...
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers have discovered that the carbon-based material can withstand more than one billion cycles of high stress before breaking.
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers have developed nanoparticles that, in the lab, can activate immune responses to cancer cells. If they are shown to work as well in the body as they do in the lab, the nanoparticles might provide an effective and more affordable way to ...
Jan 29, 2020
A group of materials scientists has shown that a palladium-based intermetallic electride, Y3Pd2, can improve the efficiency of carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions. Their findings point the way to a more sustainable world through catalysis.
Jan 29, 2020
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the DOE are upgrading the Advanced Light Source (ALS). The combination of the accumulator ring and upgraded main storage ring will enable at least 100 times brighter beams at key energies, and will make th...
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers explain how a higher order periodic modulations due to the encapsulation of graphene between hexagonal boron nitride, called supermoire, affects the electronic and structural properties of graphene, as revealed in three recent independ...
Jan 29, 2020
This exotic liquid-like state of matter in which magnetism never freezes could give rise to high-temperature superconductivity and form the basis for quantum computing.
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers have developed the concept for constructing an 'optical vacuum cleaner'. Due to its optical properties, it can trap nanoparticles from the environment.
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots -- tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial ...
Jan 29, 2020
