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- Helium’s Crucial Role In Physics 05/06/2019 Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, Michael Banks highlights how helium leads to great discoveries and helps saves lives too
- Lithium Is The Little Element Making A Big Difference 03/06/2019 Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, Margaret Harris observes that lithium – a playground for atomic physicists – also offers a route to greener energy, as well as a life-changing treatment for people with bipolar disorder.
- ‘Cold Case’ Of Cold Fusion Reopened By Google-Funded Scientists 01/06/2019 Scientists at Google and several research institutes in North America have reopened what they call the “cold case” of cold fusion.
- Single-Molecule Magnetometer Images Spin Interactions 22/05/2019 A single magnetic molecule can act as a sensing device and produce the most detailed images yet of a material’s magnetic structure at the atomic scale.
- Plumbene, Cousin Of Graphene, Created By Researchers 22/05/2019 Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because of their unique potential as useful topological insulators.
- As Quantum Technology Matures What Industries Should Care? 22/05/2019 “In the next 5-10 years a quantum computer will do a calculation that a supercomputer can’t do,” Rupesh Srivastava told around 65 invited attendees at the OxLEP led Quantum Technologies briefing at the UK’s House of Commons.
- Scientists Find A Way To Increase The Capacity Of Energy Sources For Portable Electronics 22/05/2019 Scientists from Skoltech, Moscow State University (MSU) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have proposed a new approach to replacing carbon atoms with nitrogen atoms in the supercapacitor's crystal lattice and developed a novel capacity enhancement method based on carbon lattice modification with the aid of plasma.
- Condensing Droplets Get A Boost From Micron-Thin Polymer Coating 21/05/2019 Condensation plays an important role in many large-scale industrial processes including refrigeration, liquification, waste heat recovery and distillation.
- Adding A Carbon Atom Transforms 2-D Semiconducting Material 21/05/2019 A technique that introduces carbon-hydrogen molecules into a single atomic layer of the semiconducting material tungsten disulfide dramatically changes the electronic properties of the material.
- Researchers Create Soft, Flexible Materials With Enhanced Properties 21/05/2019 A team of polymer chemists and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new methodology that can be used to create a class of stretchable polymer composites with enhanced electrical and thermal properties.
- Researchers Discover How A Nanocatalyst Works At The Atomic Level 21/05/2019 Researchers of the Nanoscience Center (NSC) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Xiamen University, China, have discovered how copper particles at the nanometer scale operate in modifying a carbon-oxygen bond when ketone molecules turn into alcohol molecules.