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The discovery focuses on an industrial catalyst known as cerium oxide, or ceria, a spongy material commonly used in catalytic converters, self-cleaning ovens and various green-energy applications, such as fuel cells and solar water splitters.
Read more about Stanford Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Boost the Performance of a Key Industrial Catalyst
Researchers from Oregon State University, the University of California, Davis, the University of Washington, and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that the layers of magnesium in the shells of marine creatures known foraminifera are due to daily cycles of sunlight.
Read more about Refining the Ocean’s Thermometer
A team of researchers at Michigan State University are showing how heat affects seed quality in plants targeted for producing biofuels.
Read more about Growing Pains and How that Might Affect Seed Quality
Experiments done at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Madhavan and Abbamonte laboratories, in collaboration with researchers at six institutions in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and Japan, have shed new light on the electronic properties of this material at temperatures 4°K above Tc.
Read more about New Understanding of Superconductor's 'Normal' State May Open the Way to Solving Longstanding Puzzle
A Caltech chemical engineer who normally develops new ways to fabricate microprocessors in computers has figured out how to explain a nagging mystery in space—why comets expel oxygen gas, the same gas we humans breathe.
Read more about Caltech Chemical Engineer Explains Oxygen Mystery on Comets
A new technique developed by a team including University of Delaware Prof. Neil Sturchio and colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago has produced real-time observations documenting the chemical reactions that happen between liquids and solids.
Read more about Molecular Scale Science May Inform Water Purification Methods and Battery Improvements
Researchers report the mechanics behind an early key step in artificially activating CO2 so that it can rearrange itself to become the liquid fuel ethanol.
Read more about Caltech, Berkeley Lab Teams Combines Theory, X-ray Experiments to Explain What’s at Work in Copper Catalyst
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have identified a gene that keeps grasses from entering their flowering cycle until the season is right, a discovery that may help plant breeders and engineers get more from food and energy crops.
Read more about Newly Identified Gene Helps Time Spring Flowering in Vital Grass Crops
In response to popular demand, materials scientists at Duke University have resurrected an online cookbook of crystalline structures that started when the World Wide Web was Netscape Navigator and HTML 1.0.
Read more about D.I.Y. Crystal-Makers Get Refurbished Online Cookbook
A University of Utah-led team has discovered that a class of “miracle materials” called organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites could be a game changer for future spintronic devices.
Read more about A New Spin on Electronics
Researchers at MIT have observed a novel phenomenon in sheets of tantalum arsenide that mimics the behavior of theorized (but never observed) particles called Weyl fermions.
Read more about Exploring Elusive High-Energy Particles in an Unusual Metal
Subjecting complex metal mixtures called high-entropy alloys to extremely high pressures could lead to finer control over the arrangement of their atoms, which in turn can result in more desirable properties.
Read more about Standford Scientists Discover High Pressure is the Key to Lighter and Stronger Metal Alloys
