Researchers devise microreactor to study formation of methane hydrate
Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering are using a novel means of studying how methane and water form methane hydrate that allows them to examine discrete steps in the process faster and...
View ArticleInnovative carbon nanotube photocatalytic materials for efficient solar...
The unique properties of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs) offer significant advantages over organic molecules, semiconducting polymers, and solid-state semiconductors for wide...
View ArticleOil and water may mix under extreme pressure
They say that oil and water do not mix … but now scientists have discovered that – under certain circumstances – it may be possible.
View ArticleTripling the efficiency of solar-based hydrogen fuel generation with metallic...
Hydrogen gas, an important synthetic feedstock, is poised to play a key role in renewable energy technology; however, its credentials are undermined because most is currently sourced from fossil fuels,...
View ArticleFiltering molecules from the water or air with nanomembranes
Free-standing carbon membranes that are a millionth of a millimetre thin: these are a special research field of Professor Dr. Armin Gölzhäuser from Bielefeld University and his research group. The...
View ArticleHydrogen power moves a step closer
Physicists at Lancaster University are developing methods of creating renewable fuel from water using quantum technology.
View ArticleThe cosmic water trail uncovered by Herschel
During almost four years of observing the cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory traced out the presence of water. With its unprecedented sensitivity and spectral resolution at key wavelengths,...
View ArticleUV-irradiated amorphous ice behaves like liquid at low temperatures
Ice analogs mimicking interstellar ice behave like liquids at temperatures between -210°C and -120°C according to Hokkaido University researchers. This liquid-like ice may enhance the formation of...
View ArticleResearchers explore implications of excess hydrogen bonding at the ice-vapor...
It is at a temperature of −70 °C that water molecules at the surface of ice make the most bonds with each other. AMOLF researchers, together with an international team of colleagues, describe this in...
View ArticleStudies of 'amorphous ice' reveal hidden order in glass
The waves at the bottom of old window panes are a reminder that solid glass behaves like a very slow-moving liquid. Now a new study challenges the notion that the atomic structure of glass is...
View ArticleNew efficient catalyst for key step in artificial photosynthesis
Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a new catalyst that speeds up the rate of a key step in "artificial photosynthesis"—an effort to mimic how...
View ArticleConfined within tiny carbon nanotubes, extremely cold water molecules line up...
Single-walled carbon nanotubes act like tiny straws that are so narrow that water confined within cannot freeze into its normal crystal-like structure. In particular, in very thin nanotubes, water...
View ArticleA new way to produce clean hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight
Osaka University-led researchers develop new metal-free photocatalyst and show visible and near infrared light-driven production of hydrogen from water.
View ArticleStudying entropy in metallic glasses
A team led by Caltech recently solved a decades-old materials science mystery by tracking down the origin of entropy in metallic glasses.
View ArticleNew experiments and simulations reveal molecular interactions in extreme...
Water is everywhere. But it's not the same everywhere. When frozen under extreme pressures and temperatures, ice takes on a range of complex crystalline structures.
View ArticleCold molecules on collision course
How do chemical reactions proceed at extremely low temperatures? The answer requires the investigation of molecular samples that are cold, dense, and slow at the same time. Scientists around Dr. Martin...
View ArticleMiniature droplets could solve an origin-of-life riddle
It is one of the great ironies of biochemistry: life on Earth could not have begun without water; yet water stymies some chemical reactions necessary for life itself.
View ArticleIonic 'solar cell' could provide on-demand water desalination
Modern solar cells, which use energy from light to generate electrons and holes that are then transported out of semiconducting materials and into external circuits for human use, have existed in one...
View ArticleCooking fats in the atmosphere may affect climate more than previously thought
Fats being released into the atmosphere from cookers such as deep fat fryers may be enhancing the formation of clouds, which have a major cooling effect on the planet.
View ArticleIce skating on water, even when it is really cold
The outermost layer of ice behaves like liquid water, even at a temperature of –30°C. Physicists at AMOLF have irrefutably demonstrated this using a modern surface-sensitive measuring technique. At...
View ArticleScientists channel graphene to understand filtration and ion transport into...
Tiny pores at a cell's entryway act as miniature bouncers, letting in some electrically charged atoms—ions—but blocking others. Operating as exquisitely sensitive filters, these "ion channels" play a...
View ArticleFirst mathematical network model for the Battle of the Sexes
Why is it easier to bridge conflicting interests in one neighbourhood than in another? Social scientists think that the residents' social networks may play an important role in the answer to this...
View ArticleAtoms rearrange in electrolyte and control ion flow under tough conditions
Minerals that make up rocks and soils are thrown out of equilibrium when the chemistry of their surroundings changes. Shifts in pH or the concentration of ions in water make minerals dissolve, grow, or...
View ArticleTracking a solvation process step by step
Chemists of Ruhr-Universität Bochum have tracked with unprecedented spatial resolution how individual water molecules attach to an organic molecule. They used low-temperature scanning tunneling...
View ArticleNew study visualizes motion of water molecules, promises new wave of...
A novel approach to studying the viscosity of water has revealed new insights about the behavior of water molecules and may open pathways for liquid-based electronics.
View ArticleIngredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth
Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system's asteroid belt for billions of years, share something else in common: the ingredients for life....
View ArticleQuantum speed limit may put brakes on quantum computers
Over the past five decades, standard computer processors have gotten increasingly faster. In recent years, however, the limits to that technology have become clear: Chip components can only get so...
View ArticleThe first precise measurement of a single molecule's effective charge
For the first time, scientists have precisely measured the effective electrical charge of a single molecule in solution. This fundamental insight of an SNSF Professor could also pave the way for future...
View ArticleFlexibility and arrangement—the interaction of ribonucleic acid and water
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) plays a key role in biochemical processes that occur at the cellular level in a water environment. Mechanisms and dynamics of the interaction between RNA and water were now...
View ArticleDive into the world of molecules
Brand new technology in the classroom: students immerse themselves in a "mixed reality" and use HoloLens glasses to learn a fundamental principle of proteins.
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