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Why Toothpaste and Cement Harden Over Time

Take a look inside the cap of your favorite toothpaste, and you might see hard, white residue, a firm version of the smooth paste you squeeze onto your brush. Many paste materials, also known as dense colloidal suspensio...

28 May 2020

New Technology Could Pave the Way for Increased Fuel Economy

A technology developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could pave the way for increased fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions as part of an octane-on-demand fuel-delivery system.

22 May 2020

Single-Crystal Electrode Could Yield Pivotal Findings for Advanced Batteries

The diamonds and other crystals on view in science museum exhibits are a delight to the eye. What contributes to their sometimes dazzling geometric shapes and colors is their highly ordered arrangement of atoms.

5 May 2020

New Atom-Sized Machine Creates Entropy When Filled with Free Energy

Here's a new chapter in the story of the miniaturisation of machines: researchers in a laboratory in Singapore have shown that a single atom can function as either an engine or a fridge.

5 May 2020

High-Performance Sustainable Structural Material can Replace Plastic

Plastic is a kind of widely used artificial material. The invention of plastic gives us a lightweight, strong and inexpensive material to use but also bring us the plastic apocalypse. Many of the unrecycled plastic waste ends up in the ocean, Earth's last sink.

4 May 2020

New "Intelligent Microsystem" for Faster, More Sustainable Industrial Chemistry

The synthesis of plastic precursors, such as polymers, involves specialized catalysts. However, the traditional batch-based method of finding and screening the right ones for a given result consumes liters of solvent, generates large quantities of chemical waste, and is an expensive, time-consuming process involving multiple trials.

15 Apr 2020