Chemistry AND Physics

Credit: Matthew Kerr; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles, or Washington. One morning you hear a siren off in the distance. You know the direction and that it was…

A new study has shown that gentle streams of water carrying sound and microscopic air bubbles can clean bacteria from salad leaves more effectively than current washing methods used by suppliers and consumers. As well as reducing food…

Credit: Tokyo Tech Today, we can say without a shadow of doubt that an alternative to fossil fuels is needed. Fossil fuels are not only non-renewable sources of energy but also among the leading causes of global warming and air…

Lithium-magnesium alkyl-alkoxy intermediates in Br-Mg exchange Organometallic reagents are essential tools in synthetic chemistry. They work even better and more effectively in combination with alkali alkoxides. The exact nature of this…

Researchers from the Kleij group present a new route to prepare biobased polyesters with tuneable propertiesCredit: ICIQ/Francesco Della Monica Finding innovative and sustainable solutions to our material needs is one of the core…

Credit: American Astronomical Society (AAS) WASHINGTON -- About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun's tenuous outermost layer…

Credit: ©Zhongbin Wu In the group of Prof. Karl Leo, physicists, material scientists and engineers are working jointly on the development of novel organic materials and devices for high performance, flexible and possibly even biocompatible…

Study by researchers at the University of Campinas published in Physical Review Letters discusses both light dispersion by vibrations inside the device and light dissipation to the exterior, an aspect rarely studied hithertoCredit: André…

Credit: Reprinted with permission from Langmuir 2021, 37, 151-159. Copyright (2021) American Chemical Society Aqueous free-radical precipitation polymerization is one of the most useful methods to prepare the uniformly sized hydrogel…

Credit: Saarland University/Oliver Dietze The formation of double bonds between two carbon atoms (C=C) is of central significance in natural organisms. The vast majority of natural substances therefore contain one or more of these…

Credit: Piqsels (creative commons) New energy tariffs could leave people on bad deals even worse off despite the potential benefits for everyone, research has found. The study, led by the University of Leeds, found new types of…

Credit: TPU researchers Raul David Rodriguez Contreras and Evgeniya Sheremet TPU researchers jointly with their colleagues from foreign universities have developed a method that allows for a laser-driven integration of metals into…

Processes in a model system for organic solar cells analyzed at the femtosecond scale for the first timeCredit: DESY / Heiner Mueller-Elsner The key are the ultra-fast flashes of light, with which the team led by Dr. Friedrich Roth…

Credit: NCU/Anna Jaszczuk A number of scientists whose work is inspired by natural behavior is constantly growing. The lotus flower, with its ability to self- clean, is commonly described in literature and can be best examples…

Credit: ©2021 Rynearson et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202560 Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital…

Credit: NI Jin Recently, the Laboratory of Micro and Nano Engineering, School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made important progress in the field of structural chirality detection…

Credit: by Iman Tavakkolnia, Lethy K. Jagadamma, Rui Bian, Pavlos P. Manousiadis, Stefan Videv, Graham A. Turnbull, Ifor D. W. Samuel and Harald Haas Around the world there are currently more than 18 billion internet-connected mobile…

Soft material demonstrates autonomous, heartbeat-like oscillating properties Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a theoretical model to design soft materials that demonstrate autonomous oscillating properties that mimic…

Korber's Epigraph algorithm used for HIV, Ebola, Marburg thus farCredit: Dreamstime LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 1, 2021-- A novel computer algorithm that could create a broadly reactive influenza vaccine for swine flu also offers a path…

Elder suns with low-mass companionsCredit: Andrzej Romanski/NCU An international team led by Prof. dr habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland), has discovered yet another three…