Because of their high energy-storage density, materials such as metal oxides, sulfides, and fluorides are promising electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles and other technologies. However, their ...
Materials Science
May 24, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new source of ions will soon be the starting point for the beams entering two major research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory - the Relativistic Heavy Ion ...
General Physics
Oct 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules.
Materials Science
Nov 30, 2009
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Laser beams can do more than just heat things up; they can cool them down too. That is nothing new for physicists who have devoted themselves to precision spectroscopy and the development of optical atomic clocks. But what ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 13, 2021
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Researchers have discovered the most precise way to control individual ions using holographic optical engineering technology.
Quantum Physics
May 5, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Universities of Queensland and New South Wales in Australia have discovered that the ability of a plastic to conduct electricity can be tuned by exposure to an ion beam. Usually plastics ...
Materials Science
Dec 15, 2010
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Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), in collaboration with researchers in Belgium and Italy, have published research that could help provide a primary standard for dose measurements of carbon ion beam therapy ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new transistor made from graphene - the world's thinnest material - has been developed by a research team at the University of Southampton.
Nanophysics
Feb 8, 2011
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The start of this year's physics run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) also marks the start of a new era. For the first time since RHIC began operating at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
General Physics
May 8, 2023
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For the first time, a team of researchers under the leadership of TU Darmstadt has succeeded in measuring the transition between energy levels of the lithium-like ions of bismuth with such precision that it has become possible ...
General Physics
May 16, 2017
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