“Diesel is the preferred fuel because of its high energy density and the high efficiency of the engines that run on diesel,” professor Gregory Stephanopoulos says. “The problem with diesel is that so far it is entirely made from...
Using advanced electron microscope techniques, (left to right) graduate student Fariah Hayee, Professor Jen Dionne and senior research scientist Ai Leen Koh captured extremely high-resolution video of atoms moving in and out of nanoparticles. Credit: L.A. Cicero
In a lab 18...
2D hexagonal sheet-like and 3D capsid structures based on atomically precise gold nanoclusters as guided by hydrogen bonding between the ligands. The inset in the top left corner shows the atomic structure of one gold nanocluster.Credit: Image courtesy of...
MIT chemists have now developed a 3-D printing technique that allows them to print objects and then go back and add new polymers that alter the materials’ chemical composition and mechanical properties. These new polymers can be reactivated by...
The X-ray crystal structure of a 192-atom-loop molecular 819 knot featuring iron ions (shown in purple), oxygen atoms (red), nitrogen atoms (dark blue), carbon atoms (shown in metallic grey, with one of the building blocks shown in light blue)...
This illustration shows the setup for an experiment at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source that used infrared light (shown in red) and an atomic force microscope (middle and top) to study the local surface chemistry on coated platinum particles...
This is a schematic of scanning photocurrent imaging microscopy of halide perovskite film (side view). Using the technique, researchers found the diffusion length within a well-oriented perovskite film measured up to 20 micrometers.Credit: Courtesy of Nano Letters
Solar cells made...
A visual description of the CRISPR/Cas9 research explored by UNT researchers using TACC supercomputers. Simulations found that Cas9 produces staggered, "sticky" ends, which may make them easier to manipulate for future use.Credit: Jin Liu and Zhicheng Zuo, UNT
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A Netherlands train. Image Credit: Flickr/Sludge G
As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains in the Netherlands are being powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS said Tuesday, calling it a world first.
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This figure depicts the organic semiconductor, in this case P3HT:PCBM in red, with a 2D MoS2 layer on a silver plasmonic metasurface.Credit: Image courtesy of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University - OIST
In the past decade, two-dimensional,...
The schematic at left shows the design for an experimental transistor made of a semiconductor called beta gallium oxide, which could bring new ultra-efficient switches for applications such as the power grid, military ships and aircraft. At right is...
