Six degrees of nuclear separation
Argonne scientists look to 3-D printing to ease separation anxiety, which paves the way to recycle more nuclear material.
General Physics
Oct 11, 2019
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News tagged with oxidation state
Scientists propose a dynamic charge and oxidation state for single-atom catalysts
Pollutants coming out of cars' exhausts are harmful to the environment and public health. With the goal of overall curbing car emissions, the US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a challenge to scientists worldwide: catalytically ...
Materials Science
Aug 5, 2019
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Artificial DNA can control release of active ingredients from drugs
A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times is under development by a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). What was once a pharmacologist's dream is now much closer to ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 1, 2019
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Rare copper oxide exhibits unusual magnetic properties and spin-orbit interactions
The scientists of Ural Federal University conducted a study in which they found that one of the copper oxides with a structure of a rare mineral spinel—CuAl2O4—is a material with unusual magnetic properties and structure ...
Condensed Matter
May 16, 2019
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How a mitochondrial enzyme can trigger cell death
Cytochrome c is a small enzyme that plays an important role in the production of energy by mitochondria. It is also involved in signaling dangerous problems that warrant apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Using solid-state ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2019
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Surprising electronic disorder in a copper oxide-based ceramic
Cuprates, a class of copper-oxide ceramics that share a common building block of copper and oxygen atoms in a flat square lattice, have been studied for their ability to be superconducting at relatively high temperatures. ...
Superconductivity
Jan 29, 2019
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Very heavy elements deliver more electrons
Actinides, a series of 15 radioactive elements, are vital to medicine, energy, and national defense. Scientists examined two exceedingly rare actinides, berkelium and californium. These elements are at the extreme end of ...
Materials Science
Nov 8, 2018
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Opening access to explore the synthetic chemistry of neptunium
Leftovers from nuclear reactors contain the element neptunium. To safely store the waste, scientists need to know more about how to control neptunium's chemistry. Knowing the stability of different oxidation states is central ...
Materials Science
Nov 8, 2018
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Scientists obtain new results in the study of inorganic pigments with apatite structure
Compounds with the apatite structure differ from most classes by the variety of their chemical compositions. To create such substances, most chemical elements can be used, while the characteristics of the crystalline structure ...
Materials Science
Oct 31, 2018
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Hidden gapless states on the path to semiconductor nanocrystals
When chemists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw were starting work on a new material designed for the efficient production of nanocrystalline zinc oxide, they didn't expect ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2018
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