Heavy elements known as the actinides are important materials for medicine, energy, and national defense. But even though the first actinides were discovered by scientists at Berkeley Lab more than 50 years ago, we still don't know much about their chemical properties because only small amounts of these highly radioactive elements (or isotopes) are produced every year; they're expensive; and their radioactivity makes them challenging to handle and store safely.
An international team of researchers from India and Russia has developed edible food films for packaging vegetables, fruits, seafood, meat, and poultry. The new films are made of natural ingredients and are safe for both the environment and health.
A new structural battery created by scientists from the Chalmers University of Technology can perform 10 times better than all the earlier prototypes.
Generation or manipulation of heat forms part of nearly 90% of the world’s energy use, and regulating thermal transport is still a challenge in several fields, ranging from nano- and micro-scale electronic devices to aeronautics.
Research led by the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has identified a material that could help tackle speed and energy, the two biggest challenges for computers of the future.
Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals, electrons move individually, and they collide with defects and vibrations in the lattice.
A Rochester Institute of Technology faculty member has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to conduct fundamental physics research on complex materials in solid oxide fuel cells. Assistant Professor Pratik Dholabhai from RIT's School of Physics and Astronomy received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and grant for his five-year project.
At the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), the aim of Professor Emanuele Orgiu is to determine the best materials for future electronics.
Researchers from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Laboratory (QTC) of the Jaume I University of Castellón (UJI) have developed new antibacterial and photocatalytic materials to eliminate medicines from wastewater.
We all have a clear picture in mind when we think of metals: We think of solid, unbreakable objects that conduct electricity and exhibit a typical metallic sheen. The behaviour of classical metals, for example their electrical conductivity, can be explained with well-known, well-tested physical theories.
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