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Don’t Count Your Ions Before They Dissociate
Ionic liquids found to behave differently than expected.
Ionic liquids found to behave differently than expected.
The discovery of the first binary magnetic quasicrystals will enable the unraveling of the fundamental relationship between the structure and magnetism in aperiodic materials.
Magnetic domains exhibit the same dynamic jamming behavior universal to granular materials, polymers, glasses and emulsions.
Proton radiography is a new tool for imaging melting and solidification of metals.
Researchers create materials that can store lots of energy and deliver it quickly.
New Battery Design Could One Day Help Solar and Wind Power the Electrical Grid
Using artificial nanostructures to control the properties of light could play a prominent role in the future of computing.
Predicted materials could economically produce high-purity methane from natural gas systems and separate methane from coal mine ventilation systems.
New method enables structure determination of flexible biomolecules.
When it comes to stressing a crystal during irradiation, not all atoms are created equal.
Nano-structuring may help superconductors overcome a decades-long barrier to use in more powerful motors and magnets.
Designing protein assemblies whose interactions can be manipulated to respond to a single environmental cue.