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• New Analysis Technique for Chiral Activity in Molecules
  Professor Hyunwoo Kim of the Chemistry Department and his research team have developed a technique that can easily analyze the optical activity of charged compounds by using nuclear magnetic resona...
• Filming microscopic and macroscopic changes within materials
  The EDDI beamline at BESSY II is now offering even more options. It has recently become possible to also obtain high-resolution three-dimensional images of microscopic structure with it, up to four...
• New type of foam made of real gold
  A nugget of real 20 carats gold, so light that it does not sink in a cappuccino, floating instead on the milk foam - what sounds unbelievable has actually been accomplished by researchers from ETH ...
• Elucidation of nature of volume isotope effect in ice - An unified volume isotope effect
  Investigations into isotopes of hydrogen and their bonds with oxygen at different pressures yield a unified explanation of changes in volume in ice. The most common form of ice existing at ambient ...
• Neutrons explain aging process in lithium ion batteries
  A key issue with lithium ion batteries is aging. It significantly reduces their potential storage capacity. To date, very little is known about the causes of the aging effects. Scientists from the ...
• Adaptable metallic-cage gels could be tuned for applications including drug delivery and water filtration
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemists have created a new material that combines the flexibility of polymer gels with the rigid structure provided by metal-based clusters. The new gel...
• How electrical stimulation works for the treatment of bacterial infections
  The Washington State University researchers passed an electric current over a film of bacteria and in 24 hours killed almost all of a multi-drug resistant bacterium that is often present in difficu...
• Electrochemistry to satisfy mass demand: the pyrite battery
  High-performance lithium ion batteries face a major problem: Lithium will eventually start to run out. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich have now discovered an alternative: the "fool's gold batt...
• Charge transport in polymeric carbon nitride detailed for first time
  Polymeric carbon nitride is an organic material with interesting optoelectronic properties. As an inexpensive photocatalyst, it can be used to facilitate water splitting using sunlight. Joint resea...
• New methods to obtain accurate images of microwave fields
  Microwave field imaging is becoming increasingly important, as microwaves play an essential role in modern communications technology and can also be used in medical diagnostics. Researchers from th...
• Structure of "concrete disease" solved
  When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete are streaked with dark cracks after a few decades, the culprit is AAR: the alkali-aggregate reaction. Also called the "concrete disease...
• Mechanical forces control the stucture of bacterial biofilms
  As hide-outs for bacteria, biofilms cause problems for antibiotic treatment or the cleaning of medical tubes. They contribute to the spreading of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. A biofilm i...
• Unique thermal properties in 2-D black phosphorus nanoribbons discovered
  A new experimental revelation about black phosphorus nanoribbons should facilitate the future application of this highly promising material to electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices....
• New protein nanoparticles allow tracking cells and interactions within them
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have designed magnetic protein nanoparticles that can be used to track cells or to monitor interactions within cells. The particles are an enha...
• New class of materials: hybrid aerogels with biopolymers
  Although they are considered to be the best insulators of all, silicate-based aerogels have the disadvantages of being brittle and tending to produce dust. With the development of a hybrid aerogel ...
• Einstein's Theory of Relativity explains fundamental properties of gold
  Some fundamental properties of the coinage metal elements gold, silver and copper, such as chemical behaviour or colours, are already predetermined in their atoms. The unique properties of gold can...
• Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell achieves record efficiency
  Teams from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have been the first to successfully combine a silicon heterojunction solar cell with a perovskite ...
• Manipulating wrinkles could lead to graphene semiconductors
  Graphene has generally been described as a two-dimensional structure - a single sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a regular structure - but the reality is not so simple. In reality, graphene can fo...
• Showing chiral crystals on butterfly wings by using electron tomography
  FAU researchers have succeeded in pinpointing the three-dimensional structure of microscopic photonic crystals in butterfly wings. These findings will help researchers to understand the formation o...
• Scientifically founded information about the health risk due to radon
  About five per cent of all lung cancer deaths in Germany are a result of the natural radioactive noble gas radon - that are over 1,900 dead persons per year. After smoking, radon in dwellings is th...
• Non-toxic polymer literally sucks mercury out of water and soil
  A brand new, dirt cheap material is set to become a game changer in the battle against one of the world's most reviled pollutants. The dark red material, developed by Flinders University's Dr Justi...