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Materials Science Jul 14, 2023

Breakthrough in material design will help football players, car occupants and hospital patients

The discovery that football players were unknowingly acquiring permanent brain damage as they racked up head hits throughout their professional careers created a rush to design better head protection. One of these inventions ...

Nanophysics Jul 6, 2023

New breakthrough shows how short pulses of light destroy particles

Polaritons are a peculiar state, a kind of quasi-particles consisting of part-light and part-matter that can bring unexpected abilities to conventional chemical reactions. New research from Umeå University and others reveals ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 5, 2023

From atoms to materials: Algorithmic breakthrough unlocks path to materials for sustainable technologies

New research by the University of Liverpool could signal a step change in the quest to design the new materials that are needed to meet the challenge of net zero and a sustainable future.

Biochemistry Jun 30, 2023

Potent new compound has breakthrough potential for parasitic sleeping sickness and Chagas treatment

Scientists have discovered a new class of compound that is potentially active against trypanosome parasites that cause human African trypanosomiasis (or sleeping sickness) and Chagas disease.

Analytical Chemistry Jun 21, 2023

Breakthrough in stabilization of solid electrolyte paves way to all-solid-state batteries

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have achieved an unprecedented stabilization of the high-temperature phase of Li3PS4—a critical material for all-solid-state batteries—thus attaining exceptional ionic conductivity ...

Analytical Chemistry Jun 21, 2023

Revealing magnetic mysteries: Breakthrough builds better single molecule magnets

Scientists from the University of Ottawa have invented a unique method to create better molecule-based magnets, known as single-molecule magnets (SMMs). This synthetic tour de force has resulted in a two-coordinate lanthanide ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jun 15, 2023

Study reveals potential breakthrough in grapevine disease resistance

A team of scientists—including UC Irvine's Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Brandon Gaut and UC Davis's Professors of Viticulture & Enology Dario Cantù and Andy Walker—has made a significant breakthrough ...

General Physics Jun 15, 2023

Tempest in a teacup: Physicists make breakthrough in creating turbulence

Turbulence is all around us. It's in the swirl of coffee and milk in a latte, unfurling along the wings of airplanes and the sides of cars, churning the blood in your heart after the valve snaps closed. Yet we still don't ...

Condensed Matter Jun 12, 2023

Unveiling the invisible: A breakthrough in spectroscopy to allow discoveries in materials physics

Scientists from the University of Ottawa and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light are proposing a breakthrough approach that will facilitate discoveries in materials science by combining terahertz (THz) spectroscopy ...

Condensed Matter Jun 12, 2023

Breakthrough in understanding charge transport in organic solar cells

Researchers from the Professorship of Optics and Photonics of Condensed Matter, headed by Prof. Dr. Carsten Deibel, of Chemnitz University of Technology and other partner institutions are currently working together on solar ...

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