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Analytical Chemistry Sep 23, 2024

Impact of bimetallic synergies on Mo-doping NiFeOOH

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a vital yet challenging process in water splitting, requiring a four-electron transfer that often suffers from slow reaction kinetics. Noble metal-based oxides, such as RuO2 and IrO2, ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 20, 2024

Recharging mitochondria—nanoflowers offer a new way to simulate energy production to improve aging ailments

When we need to recharge, we might take a vacation or relax at the spa. But what if we could recharge at the cellular level, fighting against aging and disease with the microscopic building blocks that make up the human body?

Nanomaterials Sep 13, 2024

Making 'atomic lasagna': New method transforms 3D materials into stable layered thin films with promising properties

A research team discovered a method to transform materials with three-dimensional atomic structures into nearly two-dimensional structures—a promising advancement in controlling their properties for chemical, quantum, and ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 12, 2024

Researchers reveal in-situ dynamic carbonization of Mo oxide in reverse water-gas shift reaction

The synthesis of molybdenum carbide catalysts typically requires high temperature, leading to inevitable passivation in an oxygen-containing atmosphere. Developing a new route to produce molybdenum carbide at low temperatures ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 11, 2024

Unique nanodisk pushes photonics research forward

Photonic applications harness the power of light-matter interactions to generate various intriguing phenomena. This has enabled major advances in communications, medicine, and spectroscopy, among others, and is also used ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 9, 2024

New Mo carbide catalysts show high stability and activity in CO₂ conversion

Molybdenum (Mo) carbides, known for their unique electronic and structural properties, are considered promising alternatives to noble metal catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis. However, traditional methods for preparing ...

Earth Sciences Sep 6, 2024

Witness 1.8 billion years of tectonic plates dance across Earth's surface in a new animation

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years.

General Physics Aug 28, 2024

Unveiling a novel sample configuration for ultrahigh pressure equation of state calibrations

In a paper published recently in the Journal of Applied Physics, an international team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Argonne National Laboratory and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron have ...

Superconductivity Aug 26, 2024

Superconductivity study confirms existence of edge supercurrents

Topological materials are materials that have unusual properties that arise because their wavefunction—the physical law guiding the electrons—is knotted or twisted. Where the topological material meets the surrounding space, ...

Ecology Aug 20, 2024

Sponges' symbiosis with bacteria helps them store toxic molybdenum to keep predators away, study shows

A new study at Tel Aviv University found that sponges in the Gulf of Eilat have developed an original way to keep predators away. The researchers found that the sponges contain an unprecedented concentration of the highly ...

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