Team discovers polymorph selection during crystal growth can be thermodynamically driven
Technology is getting smaller—which is good news.
Materials Science
Sep 13, 2019
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Lehigh University
Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production
Engineers at Lehigh University are the first to utilize a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a catalyst that uses the energy of captured sunlight to split water molecules to produce hydrogen. The synthesis ...
Materials Science
Aug 1, 2019
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Materials informatics reveals new class of super-hard alloys
A new method of discovering materials using data analytics and electron microscopy has found a new class of extremely hard alloys. Such materials could potentially withstand severe impact from projectiles, thereby providing ...
Materials Science
Jun 13, 2019
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Behold the mayo: Experiments reveal 'instability threshold' of elastic-plastic material
Arindam Banerjee, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University, studies the dynamics of materials in extreme environments. He and his team have built several devices to effectively investigate ...
Soft Matter
May 8, 2019
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New technique could pave the way for simple color tuning of LED bulbs
Volkmar Dierolf and an international team demonstrate the possibility of tuning the color of a GaN LED by changing the time sequence at which the operation current is provided to the device.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 29, 2019
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Researchers unlock the biomechanics of how the Ebola virus attaches to its host cell
It was recently reported that the number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 1,000, making it the second-worst outbreak in history after the 2014 outbreak in West Africa in which 29,000 people ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 26, 2019
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Laser-fabricated crystals in glass are ferroelectric
A team of researchers from Lehigh University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lebanon Valley College and Corning Inc. has demonstrated, for the first time, that crystals manufactured by lasers within a glass matrix maintain ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 29, 2019
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Big Bang query: Mapping how a mysterious liquid became all matter
The leading theory about how the universe began is the Big Bang, which says that 14 billion years ago the universe existed as a singularity, a one-dimensional point, with a vast array of fundamental particles contained within ...
General Physics
Jan 14, 2019
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Study reveals new geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently
As an embryo develops, tissues bend into complex three-dimensional shapes that lead to organs. Epithelial cells are the building blocks of this process forming, for example, the outer layer of skin. They also line the blood ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 27, 2018
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Immunotherapy for deadly bacteria shows early promise
If immunotherapy—the harnessing of the body's immune system—can destroy cancer cells, as has been demonstrated, why not try to trigger the body's immune system to battle deadly bacteria?
Biochemistry
Jul 5, 2018
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