Just because you've solved a standing chemistry challenge doesn't mean you can't make it better. Rice University scientists had that in mind when they set out to improve their technique to make a common building block for ...
Materials Science
Oct 5, 2021
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Manganese oxides have numerous applications in batteries, supercapacitors, microelectronics and (electro)catalysis—all of which can greatly benefit from conformally deposited MnO2 on high aspect ratio structures, e.g. 3-D ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 5, 2019
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Batteries power our lives: we rely on them to keep our cell phones and laptops buzzing and our hybrid and electric cars on the road. But ever-increasing adoption of the most commonly used lithium-ion batteries may actually ...
Materials Science
Jul 17, 2019
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It looks like a cross with four arms of equal length that have a central atom at their intersection. All atoms are arranged in one plane so that the molecule is absolutely planar – at least in the normal state.
Quantum Physics
Nov 26, 2018
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Compounds with the apatite structure differ from most classes by the variety of their chemical compositions. To create such substances, most chemical elements can be used, while the characteristics of the crystalline structure ...
Materials Science
Oct 31, 2018
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"Spintronics" holds promise for new types of devices for information processing and data storage, with ones and zeros being stored in the spin state of electrons as well as their electric charge. Such devices could be faster ...
General Physics
Aug 30, 2018
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Detective work by Rice University chemists has defined a deception in graphene catalysts that, until now, has defied description.
Nanomaterials
Feb 26, 2018
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A group of physicists from MIPT and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences are now one step closer to finding applications for topological insulators—materials with remarkable electrical ...
General Physics
Jul 4, 2017
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Steel has already been around for roughly 3000 years and in several thousand variations today - yet it is always good for a surprise. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf have now made ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 11, 2015
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Physicists of the University of Groningen and the FOM Foundation, led by professor Beatriz Noheda, have discovered a new manganese compound that is produced by tension in the crystal structure of terbium manganese oxide. ...
Nanophysics
Nov 19, 2014
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