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• Bio solar cell produces hydrogen
  An international team of researchers has combined molecular building blocks from plants and microorganisms in a bio solar cell so that they could use light energy to directly produce hydrogen. This...
• Hanwha Q-Cells Quantsol Awards 2018
  Six young researchers received a Hanwha Q-Cells Quantsol Award for their self-developed Photovoltaics. This award is presented by the organizers of the international summer school Quantsol together...
• What happens to soils in weightlessness?
  In the future, astronauts on long missions in space will have to take care of their own farming. But will that even work? An unusual experiment by Eawag researcher was designed to find some of the ...
• Measuring the precise duration of the photoelectric response for the first time
  Modern global networks of communication, solar power generation and distribution, and materials science are ultimately based on the photoelectric effect. More than a century after Albert Einstein e...
• Patented nanostructure for solar cells: Rough optics, smooth surface
  Thin-film solar cells made of crystalline silicon are inexpensive and achieve efficiencies of a good 14 percent. However, they could do even better if their shiny surfaces reflected less light. A t...
• How a tetrahedral substance can be more symmetrical than a spherical atom
  Scientists at Tokyo Tech have theoretically demonstrated that special tetrahedron nanostructures composed of certain metals have a higher degree of symmetry than the geometrical symmetry of spheric...
• Raman Spectroscopy: Research on the tip
  Microscopes let us peer into cells and the biochemical processes inside them. Processes taking place on much smaller scales, e.g. within single molecules, are the research focus of Dr. Marie Richar...
• Solid material with mobile particles that react to the environment
  Inside most materials, little is moving. But a new "active nanocomposite" is teeming with motion: small particles connect or separate, thus changing the color of the entire material. It was made by...
• EUROoC network lays the foundations for joint European organ-on-a-chip research
  The Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB is coordinating the establishment of a European research network to promote organ-on-a-chip technology. Organ-on-a-chip sy...
• Multiyear Tracking of Atmospheric Radicals
  Hydroxyl radicals (OH) keep our atmosphere clean. They react away toxic gases such as carbon monoxide (CO), and slow climate warming by removing greenhouse gases like methane (CH₄). In some parts o...
• Gut bacteria's shocking secret: They produce electricity
  While bacteria that produce electricity have been found in exotic environments like mines and the bottoms of lakes, scientists have missed a source closer to home: the human gut. UC Berkeley scient...
• Surprising antibacterial activity and selectivity of hydrophilic phosphonium polymers
  Artificial polymers, like antibiotic peptides, need both hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains in their molecular structure to exert antibacterial activity. Now, researchers from Canada have synthesi...
• Endocrine disruptors found in bottlenose dolphins
  Bottlenose dolphins are being exposed to chemical compounds added to many common cleaning products, cosmetics, personal care products and plastics, according to a new study in GeoHealth, a journal ...
• Terahertz Spectroscopy enters the Single-Molecule regime
  The interaction of light with matter is the basis of spectroscopy, a set of techniques lying at the heart of physics and chemistry. From infrared light to X-rays, a broad sweep of wavelengths is us...
• Heat pump that uses propane instead of fluorinated greenhouse gases
  "Heating and hot water account for around 40 percent of Germany's final energy consumption. Burning high-quality fossil fuels such as natural gas or crude oil not only makes little sense energetica...
• PhenoMeNal: an online portal for metabolomics
  An international collaboration between EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and 13 other partners has made large-scale metabolomics analyses easier with the launch of PhenoMeNal. Thi...
• Uncovering atomic movements in crystal
  Scientists can spend a long time in heated debates over tiny details - for example, how and whether atoms in a crystal move when heated, thereby altering the symmetry. Using computer simulations fo...
• Cohesin: a glue for DNA
  Before cell division begins, a newly replicated chromosome consists of two identical threadlike strands that are joined together. Responsible for holding these sister chromatids together is a ring-...
• New molecular wires for single-molecule electronic devices
  Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of molecular wire doped with organometallic ruthenium to achieve unprecedentedly higher conductance than earlier molecular wires. The...
• The importance of curiosity-based research
  In 1878, the Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff gave a lecture titled 'Imagination in Science'. In it, van 't Hoff describes his research into the biographies of more than 200 famous scient...