Transport phenomena is a research area concerned with the fundamental mechanisms and coupled behavior of momentum, heat, and mass transfer in physical, chemical, and biological systems. It formulates and analyzes balance equations derived from conservation laws, typically expressed as partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes, energy, and species transport equations. The field emphasizes constitutive relations (e.g., Newton’s law of viscosity, Fourier’s law of heat conduction, Fick’s law of diffusion) and dimensionless analysis to characterize regimes and scaling. Transport phenomena underpins modeling, simulation, and optimization across chemical engineering, materials processing, microfluidics, energy systems, and physiological flows.
A new single-protein analysis technique gives researchers an unprecedented ability to study proteins called scramblases, which have critical roles in biology. The development of the new technique, in a study led by investigators ...
Cell & Microbiology
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A drop of dye added to a glass of water undergoes ordinary diffusion. However, when placed on the surface of a foam, the dye spreads differently—diffusion becomes anomalous. An example of this is the pattern on the froth ...
General Physics
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Two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are significantly thinner than a single sheet of paper, have long drawn attention for their exceptional performance. However, they have faced a critical limitation: Their performance ...
Nanophysics
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Whisky-inspired chemicals could help power a new generation of microscopic machines, according to researchers who have discovered a way to make tiny particles "swim" through liquid using compounds linked to the production ...
Nanophysics
Jun 3, 2026
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Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns—atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual quantum behaviors—without relying on the traditionally used difficult-to-control twisting and stacking ...
Nanophysics
Jun 2, 2026
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Topological phases are unusual states of matter that give rise to properties protected by a material's overall structure (i.e., "topology"), as opposed to microscopic details. These phases are of great interest for the development ...
Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. Researchers have used two techniques—high-speed temperature mapping and ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 28, 2026
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Researchers at TU/e have demonstrated that energy transfer without loss via light or heat can occur over much greater distances than previously thought possible thanks to vibrations in microscopic gold rods. They succeeded ...
General Physics
May 27, 2026
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Heat behaves in predictable ways: a hot cup of coffee cools, a laptop warms your hands, the sun heats Earth. But at scales thousands of times smaller than a human hair, those rules begin to break down, and scientists are ...
Nanophysics
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Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors, imposed by the laws ...
