Two Curtin University scientists are finalists in the 2019 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, for research that may enable more efficient and environmentally-friendly methods for producing materials ranging from drugs to plastics.
As part of an experiment performed at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, nuclear physicists have been successful in measuring the proton’s weak charge by shooting electrons at a cold liquid hydrogen target.
Each year, over 15 million colonoscopies are carried out in the United States, and in 20% of those procedures, gastroenterologists remove precancerous growths from the colon.
In high-pressure experiments, gold is a very important material, and in static diamond anvil cell experiments, it is regarded as the “gold standard” for evaluating pressure.
Southwest Research Institute together with The University of Texas at San Antonio is working to gain insights into the vulnerability of additively manufactured materials to hydrogen embrittlement, a general issue that can result in mechanical hardware breaking down and losing functionality.
A first-ever study conducted by Monash University has found out a phenomenon and technique that can be used for producing stronger, lightweight magnesium alloys that, in turn, could enhance structural integrity in the aerospace and automobile industries.
Merging new theoretical and experimental methods, scientists from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South Korea), the University of Konstanz (Germany), and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Japan) have been successful in measuring and defining the thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions—an important quantity in nanoscale transport phenomena that has until now evaded direct experimental determination.
Conventional magnets are rigid and hard but have contributed in great measure to society and contemporary industry, says materials scientist Thomas Russell of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Batteries power the lives of people: All are dependent on them to keep their cell phones and laptops active and their hybrid and electric cars on the road.
Optogenetics, an emerging tool in biotechnology, was the source of inspiration for RMIT scientists to build a device that simulates the way the brain stores and loses information.
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