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Analytical Chemistry Jun 18, 2025

How small changes in atoms improve hydrogen production

Researchers at Umeå University have identified the inner workings of a highly efficient and stable catalyst for hydrogen production, a process central to many sustainable energy initiatives.

Nanomaterials Jun 13, 2025

New approach reversibly configures single and heteronuclear dual-atom catalysts on MoS₂ substrate

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are materials consisting of individual metal atoms dispersed on a substrate (i.e., supporting surface). Recent studies have highlighted the promise of these catalysts for the efficient conversion ...

Bio & Medicine Jun 12, 2025

Novel nanopore sensing platform paves way for solid-state, label-free DNA sequencing technologies

A pioneering partnership between researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has produced a novel nanopore sensing platform for single-biomolecule detection. Their findings, ...

Nanomaterials Jun 11, 2025

New study visualizes platinum doping on ultrathin 2D material with atomic precision

A popular 2D active material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), just got a platinum upgrade at an atomic level. A study led by researchers from the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology embedded individual platinum ...

Nanomaterials Jun 4, 2025

Revealing hidden transformations in 2D materials with atomic force microscopes

Researchers at the Institute of Physics in Zagreb, Croatia, in collaboration with international partners, have showcased new methods for visualizing atomic-scale changes in advanced materials.

Analytical Chemistry May 22, 2025

Ammonia made from air, water and sunlight: Catalysts mimic photosynthesis for cleaner production

Ammonia is a chemical essential to many agricultural and industrial processes, but its mode of production comes with an incredibly high energy cost. Various attempts have, and are, being made to produce ammonia more efficiently.

Condensed Matter May 16, 2025

Two distinct exciton states observed in 2H stacked bilayer molybdenum diselenide

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have proved to be a promising platform for studying exotic quasiparticles, such as excitons. Excitons are bound states that emerge when an electron in a material absorbs energy and rises to ...

Quantum Physics Apr 21, 2025

It's a quantum zoo out there, and scientists just found a dozen new 'species'

There are a seemingly endless number of quantum states that describe quantum matter and the strange phenomena that emerge when large numbers of electrons interact. For decades, many of these states have been theoretical: ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 17, 2025

A pioneering spectrometer for high photon energy X-rays

Researchers at the European XFEL have developed a new device for X-ray measurements at high photon energies—a so-called Laue spectrometer. It enables X-ray light with photon energies of more than 15 kiloelectronvolts to be ...

Earth Sciences Apr 15, 2025

New evidence uncovers origin of 'ghost-arc signatures' in global mid-ocean ridge basalts

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures—including negative Nb anomalies ...

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