Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 16, 2013 4.7 / 5 (16) 3 |

From methanol to formaldehyde - this reaction is the starting point for the synthesis of many everyday plastics. Using catalysts made of gold particles, formaldehyde could be produced without the environmentally ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have found a new mechanism to transmit light through optical fibers. Their discovery marks the first practical application of a Nobel-Prize-winning ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Apr 17, 2013 4.8 / 5 (10) 2 |

How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular "look" has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx. The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by a single ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Mar 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

Many discoveries in physics came as a big surprise – for example the phenomenon, that some materials loose almost all their electrical resistance at low temperatures, or that others become superconductors ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 13, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

Blood, paint or ketchup are complex liquids composed of several different components. For the construction of pumps, or the improvement of technical processes scientists and engineers need description models. ...

Physics - Soft Matter

Mar 07, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Why certain catalyst materials work more efficiently when they are surrounded by water instead of a gas phase is unclear. RUB chemists have now gleamed some initial answers from computer simulations. ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 21, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

This year sees the 40th anniversary of the ground-breaking proposal that the interactions between quarks becomes weaker as they come closer together, laying the foundations of quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, the modern theory ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 08, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 1

(Phys.org)—Ever since Austrian scientist Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using something called quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles.

Physics - Quantum Physics

Feb 05, 2013 3.1 / 5 (30) 100 |

The planet Earth will die – if not before, then when the Sun collapses. This is going to happen in approximately seven billion years. In the universe however the death of suns and planets is an everyday ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 17, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 7

For the last ten years, theoretical physicists have shown that the intense connections generated between particles as established in the quantum law of 'entanglement' may hold the key to eventual teleportation of quantum ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Jan 16, 2013 4.3 / 5 (35) 40 |

(Phys.org)—Evolution in very large populations of plants, animals or fungi can be predicted far less easily than one would expect. This has been shown by research at the Institute for Theoretical Physics ...

Biology - Evolution

Jan 09, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 10 |

(Phys.org)—New research reveals what happens when swimming cells such as spermatozoa and algae hit a solid wall, and has implications for applications in diagnostics and biofuel production.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 08, 2013 not rated yet 1 |

Fundamental studies based on computational physics are an essential part of many different branches of research – from medical technology to mobile communication. Javad Hashemi has studied the electronic ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jan 02, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Contributing geometric and topological analyses of micro-materials, University of Massachusetts Amherst mathematician Robert Kusner aided experimental physicists at the University of Colorado (UC) by successfully ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 27, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 1 |