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Chemists Create Tinted Windows that also Generate Electricity

A new discovery by Berkeley researchers may soon bring us windows that automatically tint on a sunny day to block the heat while also generating electricity.

Turning Heat into Electricity

MIT researchers, looking for ways to turn heat into electricity, find efficient possibilities in certain topological materials.

Chasing Dark Matter with the Oldest Stars in the Milky Way

An international team of astrophysicists has identified a link between dark matter and the oldest stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Curcumin Improves Memory and Mood, New UCLA Study Says

Lovers of Indian food, give yourselves a second helping: Daily consumption of a certain form of curcumin — the substance that gives Indian curry its bright color — improved memory and mood in people with mild, age-related memory loss, according to the results of a study conducted by UCLA researchers.

Prediction of Titanic Nitride Proved Unsinkable

A team of experimental and computational scientists led by Carnegie’s Tim Strobel and Venkata Bhadram have synthesized a long sought-after form of titanium nitride, Ti3N4, which has promising mechanical and optoelectronic properties.

Novel Methods of Synthesizing Quantum Dot Materials

MIT researchers are optimizing nanostructures for energy devices such as solar cells.

Scientists Get Better Numbers on What Happens When Electrons Get Wet

A new study from researchers at the University of Chicago, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and the University of California-San Diego paints a more accurate picture of how electrons behave after striking water, and how quickly they’re snatched up in chemical reactions.

UA Researchers Observe Electrons Zipping Around in Crystals

For the first time, scientists have tracked electrons moving through exotic materials that may make up the next generation of computing hardware, revealing intriguing properties not found in conventional, silicon-based semiconductors.

Chemists Follow Molecules Down ‘Nanowells,’ Track Catalytic Reactions in Nanoconfinement

Chemists at Iowa State University and Georgia State University have measured the effects of nanoconfinement in catalysis by tracking single molecules as they dive down “nanowells” and react with catalysts at the bottom.

Do You Know Where Your Xenon Is? Maybe It’s Hanging Out with Iron and Nickel in the Earth’s Core

The paradox of the missing xenon might sound like the title of the latest airport thriller, but it’s actually a problem that’s stumped geophysicists for decades. New work from an international team including Carnegie’s Alexander Goncharov and Hanyu Liu, and Carnegie alumni Elissaios Stavrou and Sergey Lobanov, is chasing down the solution to this longstanding puzzle.

The Fine-Tuning of Two-Dimensional Materials

A new understanding of why synthetic 2-D materials often perform orders of magnitude worse than predicted was reached by teams of researchers led by Penn State.

Engineered Metasurfaces Replace Adhesive Tape in Specialized Microscope

A collaboration between two labs at Caltech yields a high-tech substitute that could unlock the potential of imaging devices that counterintuitively scatter light to obtain high-resolution, high-field-of-vision views.