With the development of nuclear energy, environmental concerns associated with the nuclear fuel cycle has attracted great attention. However, the effective sequestration of actinides and lanthanides (Ln) from complex radioactive ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 9, 2020
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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have shown that copper oxide particles on the sub-nanoscale are more powerful catalysts than those on the nanoscale. These subnanoparticles can also catalyze the oxidation reactions ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 7, 2020
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Amid growing alarm over the plastic that pollutes our environment, biomedical and optics researchers at the University of Rochester are working to better understand the prevalence of microplastics in drinking water and their ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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Next-generation devices based on molecular materials have the potential to efficiently use sunlight to produce electricity or to drive chemical reactions. In contrast to commercial solar cells, where absorption of light directly ...
Materials Science
Apr 22, 2019
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For the first time scientists measured the vibrational structure of hydrogen and helium atoms by X-rays. The results disprove the misconception that it's impossible to obtain X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) spectra ...
General Physics
Feb 12, 2019
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Cold War plutonium production activities created complex wastes. Vitrifying the waste for final storage is complicated by aluminum from nuclear fuel reprocessing. Knowing how aluminum particles behave in highly radioactive ...
Materials Science
Jun 13, 2018
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Understanding how materials form and combine with one another is important to design better energy-harvesting and -storage devices. Now, researchers have directly imaged the loss of a single layer of atoms in a photocatalyst ...
Materials Science
Nov 7, 2017
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Researchers from Finland and Taiwan have discovered how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects by using laser light. A striking illustration was provided when the researchers ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 26, 2017
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The defining property of a semiconductor is its so-called bandgap: the barrier that prevents electrons within a specific energy range from flowing through a material. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and ...
Nanophysics
Feb 7, 2017
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One of the most tantalising questions in science is whether there is or ever has been life on Mars, at least in microbial form. But despite plenty of effort – including orbiting missions and even rovers that have analysed ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2016
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