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Exciting New Developments for Polymers Made from Waste Sulfur

Researchers at the University of Liverpool are making significant progress in the quest to develop new sulfur polymers that provide an environmentally friendly alternative to some traditional petrochemical based plastics.

24 Jun 2020

Study Images Compressibility of Electrons in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to the other by a "magic" angle show a variety of interesting quantum phases, including superconductivity, magnetism and insulating behaviours.

24 Jun 2020

Novel Polymer Coating to Incapacitate Coronavirus, Prevent Transmission

Lehigh is one of four universities to receive funding through the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program COVID-19 Challenge supporting innovative research projects that could potentially impact Pennsylvania's pandemic response.

24 Jun 2020

Study Takes Detailed Look at Gamma Rays Produced by Pion Decays

A group of researchers including scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, University of Tokyo, Nagoya University, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency used the spin-polarized Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States to show that, in polarized proton-proton collisions, neutral pions emitted in the very forward area of collisions--where direct interactions involving quarks and gluons are not applicable--still have a large degree of left-right asymmetry.

24 Jun 2020

New Sulfur Polymers Could be Viable Alternative to Petrochemical-Based Plastics

24 Jun 2020

Researchers Synthesize Brand-New Transition Metal Carbonyl Complexes

Since the end of the 19th century, transition metal carbonyls have been an important and familiar class of compound in coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry.

24 Jun 2020

Study Finds Microstructure of a Material is Crucial to its Dynamic Response

When a material is subjected to an extreme load in the form of a shock or blast wave, damage often forms internally through a process called spall fracture.

24 Jun 2020

Researchers Spectrally Broaden, Compress Pulses of Titanium Sapphire Laser

Researchers at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have reached a new milestone in few-cycle pulse generation, breaking a 10-year-old record and achieving 1.5-optical-cycle-long laser pulses with 1.2 terawatt peak power by a new high-energy hollow fiber compressor beamline.

24 Jun 2020

Novel Technique for Degrading Cellulose for Use as Biofuel

With the imminent threat of a climate crisis hanging over our heads, it has become crucial to develop efficient alternatives to fossil fuels.

24 Jun 2020

New 3D Structure with Semiconductor Properties for Powerful Computers

Our computers are becoming more and more powerful all the time. They also often become smaller - just think of what a standard smartphone can do today compared to just a few years ago.

24 Jun 2020

Orientation of Molecules During Movement Determines Outcome of Their Collision

What happens when a molecule collides with a surface- Researchers at Swansea University have shown that the orientation of the molecule as it moves - whether it is spinning like a helicopter blade or rolling like a cartwheel - is important in determining what happens in the collision.

24 Jun 2020

New Method to Produce Tailored Polyimide Membranes to Purify Sour Gas

Natural gas that contains larger amounts of hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) and carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is termed sour gas. Before it can enter a pipeline, it must be "sweetened" by removal of its acidic impurities.

24 Jun 2020

Researchers Discover New Form of Human-Made Mendelevium Isotope

A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium.

24 Jun 2020

New Laser-Based Technique to Refrigerate Solid Semiconductor

To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct.

24 Jun 2020

New Study to Explore Details of Magnetism in 2D Materials

The Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University experimental physicist Ming Yi a five-year grant to explore the details of magnetism in two-dimensional materials.

24 Jun 2020