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Perking Up and Crimping the ‘Bristles’ of Polyelectrolyte Brushes

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, and the Argonne National Laboratory have devised experiments that caused polyelectrolyte brush bristles to collapse and then recover from the collapse.

New Grants Bolster CSU Expertise in Wildfire Smoke Impacts

Colorado State University researchers who have led ground-breaking inquiries into understanding smoke from fires have been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science Atmospheric Science Research Program to study organic aerosols, with a focus on how the particles interact with clouds and climate.

Stripes May Help Solve Riddle of Superconductivity

Caltech's Garnet Chan, Bren Professor of Chemistry, and his colleagues have shown that high-temperature superconducting materials order themselves into a striped pattern of charges—what Chan and colleagues call "rivers of charge"—just before they become superconducting.

New Catalyst Meets Challenge of Cleaning Exhaust from Modern Engines

Researchers at Washington State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico have created a catalyst capable of reducing pollutants at the lower temperatures expected in advanced engines.

High-Resolution Climate Models Present Alarming New Projections for U.S.

Illinois atmospheric sciences researchers Zach Zobel and professor Donald Wuebbles led a team that developed new, high-resolution models that may help direct climate policy initiatives at the local level.

Columbia Engineers Create Artificial Graphene in a Nanofabricated Semiconductor Structure

Researchers at Columbia Engineering are the first to observe the electronic structure of graphene in an engineered semiconductor; finding could lead to progress in advanced optoelectronics and data processing.

$3.9 Million Supports Research to Turn Bacteria into Biofuel Producers

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have received a $3.9 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop bacteria that manufacture renewable biofuels — energy sources made from plants or microbes.

Engineers Create Plants that Glow

MIT Researchers have engineered a plant that can glow in the dark by embedding nanoparticles into the plant's leaves.

Two Holograms in One Surface

A team at Caltech has figured out a way to encode more than one holographic image in a single surface without any loss of resolution.

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Rules for Superconductivity Mirrored in 'Excitonic Insulator'

Rice University physicists dedicated to creating the working components of a fault-tolerant quantum computer have succeeded in creating a previously unseen state of matter.

NAU Researchers Join Department of Energy Project to Study the Soil Microbiome and its Effect on Carbon Persistence

Northern Arizona University Regents’ Professor Bruce Hungate, director of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss), recently joined a new initiative lead by LLNL to study how the soil microbiome controls the mechanisms that regulate the stabilization of the organic matter in soil.

Physicists Excited by Discovery of New Form of Matter, Excitonium

By developing a novel technique, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois; University of California, Berkeley; and University of Amsterdam have measured for the first time the collective excitations of the low-energy bosonic particles and observed the precursor to exciton condensation, a soft plasmon phase.