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New Conversion System Helps Obtain CO to Achieve Artificial Photosynthesis

A research team, led by Dr. Hyung-Suk Oh and Dr. Woong Hee Lee of the Clean Energy Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, working in cooperation with the Technische Universität Berlin, announced that they had developed a nano-sized, coral-shaped silver catalyst electrode and large-area, high-efficiency carbon dioxide conversion system, which can be used to obtain carbon monoxide.

21 Jul 2020

Study Enables Highly Precise Estimation of All Three Components of Magnetic Field

Quantum magnetometry, one of the most important applications in quantum metrology, aims to measure the magnetic field in highest precision.

21 Jul 2020

New Technique Could Accelerate Search for Suitable Materials for Novel Batteries

What happens inside a battery at the microscopic level during charging and discharging processes.

21 Jul 2020

Bubble Analysis Could Help Solve Problems in Food Processing Applications

Some of the fastest video cameras ever developed have been used by KAUST researchers to clarify how molecular-scale changes to water surfaces may impact the performance of industrial-scale purifications.

21 Jul 2020

New Smart Nanosheet Helps Better Understand Diseases and Their Treatment

An interdisciplinary team from Frankfurt and Jena has developed a kind of bait with which to fish protein complexes out of mixtures.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Use Oxygen to Upconvert Low-Energy Light into High-Energy Light

Scientists in Australia and the United States have been able to 'upconvert' low energy light into high energy light, which can be captured by solar cells, in a new way, with oxygen the surprise secret ingredient.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Create Next-Gen Solar Modules with High Efficiency, Stability

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have created next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and good stability.

21 Jul 2020

Study Shows Long Coherence Times Possible When Spin-Orbit Coupling is Stronger

A group of international scientists have substantially lengthened the duration of time that a spin-orbit qubit in silicon can retain quantum information for, opening up a new pathway to make silicon quantum computers more scalable and functional.

21 Jul 2020

New Apparatus Achieves Chemical Reactions at Ultracold Temperatures

In a famous parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time. Each touches a part--the trunk, ear, or side--and concludes the creature is a thick snake, fan, or wall.

21 Jul 2020

Physicists Take Very Fast Snapshots of Light-Induced Ring-Opening Reactions

Kansas State University physicists have taken extremely fast snapshots of light-induced molecular ring-opening reactions -- similar to those that help a human body produce vitamin D from sunlight.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Find New Type of Exciton in Magnetic van der Waals Material NiPS3

Things can always be done faster, but can anything beat light- Computing with light instead of electricity is seen as a breakthrough to boost the computer speeds.

21 Jul 2020

New Magnetic Nanodisks Could be Used for Neurostimulation

In addition to responding to electrical and chemical stimuli, many of the body's neural cells can also respond to mechanical effects, such as pressure or vibration.

21 Jul 2020

SLAC Researchers Achieve Full X-Ray Laser Performance Using Undulators

Just over a decade ago in April 2009, the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser produced its first light at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

21 Jul 2020

Novel Technology Developed to Mass-Produce Bio-Aviation Fuels

A Korean research team has developed a key technology for the mass-production of bio-aviation fuels.

20 Jul 2020

New Nanometric Method Could Help Probe Local Thermal Processes

The miniaturisation of electronic components coupled with their increasing integration density has considerably expanded heat flows, which can lead to overheating.

20 Jul 2020