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Researchers Determine Characteristics of Electron Emission from Irradiated Biomolecules

When fast-moving ions cross paths with large biomolecules, the resulting collisions produce many low-energy electrons which can go on to ionise the molecules even further.

10 Aug 2020

Wayne State Professor Receives DOE Grant to Develop Catalysts for Energy Generation

Shifting the current energy landscape away from fossil fuels is a major challenge that will require the development of sustainable and clean energy conversion and storage technologies including fuel cells, electrolyzers and batteries.

10 Aug 2020

Advance in Programmable Artificial Molecules

Artificial molecules could one day form the information unit of a new type of computer or be the basis for programmable substances.

10 Aug 2020

2D Materials-Based Dopamine Detector Facilitates Early Diagnosis of Medical Disorders

According to a team of researchers, headed by The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and universities in Japan and China, a supersensitive dopamine detector can facilitate early diagnosis of many disorders that lead to too little or too much dopamine.

10 Aug 2020

Jamco Corporation Announces Project Blue Sky Initiative for Hygienic, Touchless Air Cabin Technologies

Jamco Corporation announces its new “Project Blue Sky” initiative, which is a global, collaborative clean cabin initiative between Jamco and its affiliates to develop and produce touchless, hygienic cabin interior products for the aerospace industry. This clean cabin initiative seeks to increase cabin cleanliness and to alleviate passenger stress during air travel, both critically important in the wake of the COVID-19 global health crisis.

From Jamco America, Inc 10 Aug 2020

Sakor Technologies Provides New Hydraulic Cam Phaser Performance Test System for Major International Provider of Drivetrain Components

SAKOR Technologies Inc., a recognized leader in the area of high-performance dynamometer systems, announces that it recently provided a performance test stand for validating designs for new hydraulic variable timing cam phaser systems for a major international provider of powertrain components. Powerful and flexible, the cam phaser test stand will be used for research and development on engine timing designs that improve engine fuel efficiency.

From SAKOR Technologies 10 Aug 2020

Developing Commerical-Quality Biodegradable Flip-Flops

As the world's most popular shoe, flip-flops account for a troubling percentage of plastic waste that ends up in landfills, on seashores and in our oceans.

7 Aug 2020

'Roaming Reactions' Study Could Help Make Accurate Predictions About Atmospheric Molecules

A detailed study of roaming reactions - where atoms of compounds split off and orbit other atoms to form unexpected new compounds - could enable scientists to make much more accurate predictions about molecules in the atmosphere, including models of climate change, urban pollution and ozone depletion.

7 Aug 2020

Researchers Uncover a Complex Process to Make Non-Magnetic Materials Magnetic

A complex process can modify non-magnetic oxide materials in such a way to make them magnetic.

7 Aug 2020

New Insights on Bismuth Vanadate's Role in Renewable Energy at the Nanoscale

In the fight against climate change, scientists have searched for ways to replace fossil fuels with carbon-free alternatives such as hydrogen fuel.

7 Aug 2020

Chemists Develop the Brightest Known Fluorescent Materials in Existence

By formulating positively charged fluorescent dyes into a new class of materials called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices, a compound's brilliant glow can be seamlessly transferred to a solid, crystalline state, researchers report August 6 in the journal Chem.

7 Aug 2020

Highly Promising Anode Material for Safe, Durable High-Performance Batteries

Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries - lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite crystal structure.

7 Aug 2020

Research Team Discovers Unusual Structures of Tellurium Compounds

The periodic system contains 118 chemical elements. However, only a few of them, such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and silicon, are of major importance in our daily lives.

7 Aug 2020

New Nanoproteomics Method Effectively Captures Common Marker of Heart Disease

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method combining sticky nanoparticles with high-precision protein measurement to capture and analyze a common marker of heart disease to reveal details that were previously inaccessible.

7 Aug 2020

Long-Term Energy Storage may Play Key Role in Producing More Affordable, Reliable Carbon-Free Electricity

As more states in the U.S. push for increased reliance on variable renewable energy in the form of wind or solar power, long-term energy storage may play an important role in assuring reliability and reducing electricity costs, according to a new paper published by Caltech researchers.

7 Aug 2020