One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...
New research shows how gold helps transform plant-based ethanol into useful industrial chemicals with fewer emissions and ...
A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...
For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, ...
Researchers at ETH Zurich have shown, for the first time with very high time and spatial resolution, that electrons in ...
Gold is helping scientists turn plant-based ethanol into valuable industrial chemicals by keeping a delicate reaction under ...
Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...
Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...
Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...