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UMass Amherst physicists, with others, provide a new software tool and database to help materials designers with the difficult calculations needed to predict the magnitude of van der Waals interactions between anisotropic or directionally dependent bodies such as those illustrated, with long-range torques.
Read more about Characterizing the Forces That Hold Everything Together
In The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes details how this new material efficiently captures sunlight and then, how the energy can be used to break down water into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2).
Read more about Florida State Researcher Develops Material to Create Sustainable Energy Source
Chemists at Emory University have found a new, more efficient method to perform light-driven reactions, opening up another possible pathway to harness sunlight for energy.
Read more about Chemists Find New Way to Do Light-Driven Reactions in Solar Energy Quest
A joint appointment for researcher Olivier Delaire between Duke University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a win-win as he builds bridges between the two institutions and continues his work bombarding materials with beams of neutron to probe their atomic structures.
Read more about Olivier Delaire: Designing Thermoelectric Materials One Atom at a Time
Fermilab presented an analysis of the first results from its NOvA neutrino experiment on Aug. 7 and physicists from William & Mary were heavily involved.
Read more about Fermilab is 'Ecstatic' Over First NOvA Neutrino Results
Recent work at Caltech in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science provides evidence for how iron's magnetism plays a role in the arrangement of when the iron atoms changes several times before melting—an understanding that could help researchers develop better and stronger steel.
Read more about How Iron Feels the Heat
The Purdue team works on the Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS, experiment at the LHC. The CMS is one of three detectors at the LHC capturing traces of collisions between protons as they are flung together at nearly the speed of light.
Read more about Purdue Professors and Students Part of Record-Breaking Collider Restart
A team of grad students from Cornell will be among the many U.S. scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider when it restarts.
Read more about Cornell Physicists Energized About Restart of Large Hadron Collider
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in the chemical and energy fields.
Read more about Cages Offer New Direction in Sustainable Catalyst Design
Northwestern University researchers report that adding sodium produces material that is most efficient at converting heat to electricity.
Read more about Doping Powers New Thermoelectric Material
A high-energy physics group at the University of Iowa is trying to learn about the hot plasma created immediately after the universe's creation, using a heavy-ion particle detector designed and built at the UI.
Read more about Universe's Birth Just a Detection Away
Washington State University researchers have developed a catalyst that easily converts bio-based ethanol to a widely used industrial chemical, paving the way for more environmentally friendly, bio-based plastics and products.
Read more about New Catalyst Paves Way for Bio-Based Plastics and Chemicals
