Energy & Particles : Science World Report

Jun 07, 2019 02:22 PM EDT

Manipulating Electron Spin Using Artificial Molecular Motors

In spintronics, the use of organic materials as a "spin transport material" has recently garnered significant attention as they exhibit long spin-relaxation times and long spin-diffusion lengths owing to the weak spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of light elements. Meanwhile, the weak SOI of organic mate...

May 24, 2019 11:46 AM EDT

Producing Electricity at Estuaries Using Light and Osmosis

Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar power plants rely on sunlight. Researchers at EPFL are working on a method to capture an energy source that's constantly available at river estuaries: osmotic power, also known as bl...

May 22, 2019 09:38 AM EDT

A Light Matter: Understanding the Raman Dance of Solids

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University investigated the excitation and detection of photogenerated coherent phonons in polar semiconductor GaAs through an ultrafast dual pump-probe laser for quantum interferometry.

May 20, 2019 11:45 AM EDT

New Measurement Device: Carbon Dioxide as Geothermometer

For the first time it is possible to measure, simultaneously and with extreme precision, four rare molecular variants of carbon dioxide (CO2) using a novel laser instrument. It is thus able to measure the temperature during the formation of CO2-binding carbonates and carbonaceous fossils completely ...

Apr 16, 2019 02:22 PM EDT

World's fastest hydrogen sensor could pave the way for clean hydrogen energy

Hydrogen is a clean and renewable energy carrier that can power vehicles, with water as the only emission.

Apr 16, 2019 02:29 PM EDT

Inner electrons behave differently in aromatic hydrocarbons

When an electron from one of the lower energy levels in an atom is knocked out of the atom by a collision with another electron, it creates a space

Apr 09, 2019 04:16 PM EDT

Successful test of the MONSTER spectrometer provided new nuclear structure information

The research group was succesful in testing modular neutron spectrometer (MONSTER) at JYFL-ACCLAB.

Apr 09, 2019 04:16 PM EDT

The holm oak transcriptome is rebuilt, a key step towards understanding its biology

Holm oaks are some of the most emblematic trees in Mediterranean forests and the most abundant ones on the Iberian Peninsula.

Apr 08, 2019 09:33 AM EDT

Squeezed Nanocrystals: A New Model Predicts Their Shape When Blanketed Under Graphene

In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Northeastern University, scientists have developed a model for predicting the shape of metal nanocrystals

Mar 28, 2019 10:08 AM EDT

Record efficiency for perovskite-based light-emitting diodes

Rational molecular passivation for high-performance perovskite light-emitting diodes

Mar 23, 2019 11:11 AM EDT

Breakthrough in air purification with a catalyst that works at room temperature

Turning ammonia into harmless substances using gold nanoparticles on a metal oxide framework

Mar 19, 2019 09:38 AM EDT

Dalian Coherent Light Source reveals hydroxyl super rotors from water photochemistry

Scientists at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently revealed hydroxyl super rotors from water photochemistry by using the Dalian Coherent Light Source (DCLS). The researchers, under the direction of Prof. YUAN Kaijun and Prof. YANG Xueming, published th...