Search results for thermodynamic limit

Evolution Oct 16, 2023

Scientists and philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings.

Analytical Chemistry Oct 13, 2023

Investigating the detection limit of electrochemistry

With recent improvements in instrumentation and confinement techniques, the detection of molecules using electrochemical techniques has become easier than ever before; however, there are still many conditions which restrict ...

Earth Sciences Oct 2, 2023

Dense measurement network reveals high level of PM2.5 in Punjab due to crop residue burning

A group of international collaborators led by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) team performed the first quantitative study of air pollution in the north-western India region using 29 low-cost and reliable ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 27, 2023

Flour-derived borocarbonitride enriched with boron-oxygen for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to olefins

In a study published in the journal Science China Chemistry, catalytic performance was investigated using a fixed-bed reactor and the structure-activity relationship was studied by combining various characterizations with ...

Astronomy Sep 21, 2023

We should be looking for small, hot Dyson spheres, new paper argues

In 1960, legendary physicist Freeman Dyson published his seminal paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation," wherein he proposed that there could be extraterrestrial civilizations so advanced that ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 18, 2023

Innovative catalyst advances acidic water splitting technology

Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, have made a significant breakthrough in electrocatalytic water splitting, a key technology for converting ...

Polymers Sep 11, 2023

A new design strategy for mechanoresponsive materials with high thermal tolerance

In recent years, scientists have developed a wide range of smart materials known as "mechanoresponsive materials" (MRMs), which exhibit fluorescence, coloring, self-healing, and even self-strengthening in response to mechanical ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 6, 2023

Researchers reversely trap isolated atoms in high oxidation to accelerate oxygen evolution reaction kinetics

Single-atom catalysts (SACs), representing the ultimate high atom utilization efficiency and specific activity, have arguably become the most active new frontier in heterogeneous catalysis. The technology of atom trapping ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 5, 2023

Researchers use AI to find new magnetic materials without critical elements

A team of scientists from Ames National Laboratory has developed a new machine learning model for discovering critical-element-free permanent magnet materials. The model predicts the Curie temperature of new material combinations. ...

Quantum Physics Sep 5, 2023

Deriving the fundamental limit of heat current in quantum mechanical many-particle systems

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have mathematically derived the fundamental limit of heat current flowing into a quantum system comprising numerous quantum mechanical particles in relation to the particle count.

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