Scientists demonstrated that powerful acids heal certain structural defects in synthetic films.
Novel engineered polymers assemble buckyballs into columns using a conventional coating process.
Lasting just a few hundred billionths of a billionth of a second, these bursts offer new tool to study chemistry and magnetism.
First demonstration of high-pressure metastability mapping with ultrafast X-ray diffraction shows objects aren’t as large as previously thought.
Exotic material exhibits an optical response in enormous disproportion to the stimulus—larger than in any known crystal.
Researchers bring extreme conditions to a supercomputer and discover new insights about our solar system and beyond.
Americium(III) is selectively and efficiently separated from europium(III) by an extractant in an ionic liquid.
Electronic and structure richness arise from the merger of semiconducting molecules of carbon buckyballs and 2-D graphene.
Tracking atoms is crucial to improving the efficiency of next-generation perovskite solar cells.
Iron may be more valuable than platinum. Sometimes.
Single sheets made of pentagons are proven to exist and uniquely combine promising electronic properties and air stability.
Understanding assembly principles may inspire new approaches for making valuable products.
